Beethoven

Warner Classics' final new release for Beethoven's 250th anniversary year is a charming - and perhaps surprising - programme of chamber music with flute. The four works, all from the earlier years of Beethoven's career, were recorded in June 2020 in Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal. The performers are distinguished: Daniel Barenboim, here in his role as pianist; flautist Emmanuel Pahud and two of his colleagues from the Berliner Philharmoniker, First Concertmaster Daishin Kashimoto and Principal Viola, Amihai Grosz, and two players with links to the Wiener Philharmoniker, its Principal Bassoon Sophie Dervaux, and Silvia Careddu, formerly its Principal Flute.