Beethoven/ Backhaus/ Berlin State Opera Orch - Complete 1940S Studio Recording Fulfilled By FYE "the thinking person's performer" (Het

"the thinking person's performer" (Het Orgel)

instantly made him both feared and revered as one of the first openly gay sex symbols

All of it is eminently hummable and thought-provoking

Edna Stern

Beethoven/ Backhaus/ Berlin State Opera Orch - Complete 1940S Studio Recording Fulfilled By FYE "the thinking person's performer" (HetGerman pianist, Wilhelm Backhaus (1884 1969) left a 60 year recorded legacy which began in 1908, but a major turning point came in 1950 when he switched allegiance from HMV to Decca. His last HMV recordings, included in this set, are amongst his least known and it appears that those from his final HMV sessions in Zrich in 1948 are reissued here for the first time. Backhaus had settled in Switzerland in the 1930s and although he continued to perform in