Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, (Anderszewski)

A performance that’s so crazily, unreasonably beautiful that it’s sort of ridiculous to listen to this if it’s your first encounter with the Diabelli Variations -- it’s too personal, too out-there in terms of the lengths to which it will go to give breath to Beethoven’s conception, to serve as an introduction. But -- what the heck -- it’s too good not to share. The interpretive insight here is transfixing, the pianism revelatory (if something here sounds strange, just think a little about exactly what the t