"Seldom Heard" Works with Opus Numbers

Beethoven's String Quintet Op.4 is available on a Japanese CD, Bona Nova PCCL-00405, Pony Canyon Inc., played by "Pro Arte Antiqua Praha" The other piece on this CD is "String Quintet arrangement of Septet Op. 20 by Carl Friedrich Eberse (1770-1836)"

op. 16, Piano Quartet version of Piano Quintet op. 16 appears on the LP Columbia MS 6473/ members of the Budapest String Quartet & Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano. It also appears on played by members of An die Musik on Musical Heritage Society 419409X (coupled with WoO 36 #3) and on Beethoven/ Schumann Piano Quartets ~ Ax/ Stern/ Laredo/ Ma, Sony Classical SK 53 339 (coupled with the Schumann quartet in E-flat Op 47)

op. 17 Sonata for Cello and Piano (arranged from the Horn Sonata, but significantly different); available on a Swiss CD, Gallo CD-673, Dimitry Markevich, cello, Daniel Springenberg, piano. The sonata also appeared on a now-discontinued cd Channel Classics CCS 6494 featuring Pieter Wispelwey on cello and Lois Shapiro on fortepiano. An old LP, Philips PHS 900-120 (Stereo) and PHM 500-120 (Mono), features Pablo Casals on cello and Mieczyslaw Horszowski on piano, recorded in the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. This LP was re-released as Turnabout LP 34490.

op. 41 Serenade in D for Flute and Piano (arranged from the Serenade op. 25, by F.X. Kleinheinz but Beethoven corrected and approved the arrangement). Vox Box CDX 5000, Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute. A recording of this work by Severino Gazzeloni and Bruno Canino appears on Philips 454.247-2.

op. 42 Nocturne in D for Viola and Piano (arranged from the Serenade, op. 8, by F.X. Kleinheinz but Beethoven corrected and approved the arrangement). Fone FON 93F 20 (M. Fornaciari, viola); Chandos CHAN 8664 (N. Imai, viola).

op. 64 Sonata for Cello and Piano in E-flat (arranged from the String Trio op. 3), Gallo CD-672, Dimitry Markevich, cello, Daniel Springenberg, piano. Although the musicians assert that this is the only recording of this work to date, it previously appeared as a stereo LP with Viviane Spanoghe and Andre de Groote (1984) on Terpsichore (Belgium) 1982 035. Markevich claims that it is an authentic arrangement by Beethoven, contrary to what most biographers and cataloguers have asserted.

op. 104 String Quintet in C minor - Supraphon 1 11 2128 (LP), Suk Quartet, recently re-released on CD as SU34472111. Koch International Classics 3-7401-2-H1 includes a peculiar arrangement substituting a clarinet for the first violin part; Eli Heifetz, clarinet.

Folksong Variations for piano and violin, op. 107. - While there are several recordings of these variations for piano and flute, the violin version has mysteriously been ignored. Several (but not all) of these variations in the violin version are presented on Unknown Beethoven vol. 3, Berlin Classics 0091332BC.

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