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Nocturne Haze Music is a music group that is bringing the LoFi genre back; as well as other experimental sound design. Attached here is an example of a completed loop layered live and depicts the style we are going for. Feel free to check out the rest of the shorts if you're into this sort of stuff.    night tapes.   it's great to be in this community where we can share musical ideas and we look forward to checking out some of these works on this page.    come chill with us, -Nocturne Haze

Here's the link to purchase:  https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Concerti-Concerto-Essential-Classics/dp/B000002801?ie=UTF8 Recorded in 1961, Three CD's in the box Pianist: Leon Fleisher Conductor; George Szell w/ the Cleveland Orchestra Concertos No. 1 and No. 3 Concertos No. 2 and No. 4 Concerto #5 (aka The Emperor) - Triple concerto Nothing else compares.  Read all the reviews on that link, who also say this is perfection and explain why.  What Beethoven intended. I personally owned the recording of Piano Concert No. 5 (Emperor) on CBS tape way back when in the 70's, and bought it again on cassette tape when the first one wore out. Then the 2nd tape wore out, too, and I could not find it anywhere. I had to do without for like 15 years (I wrote this in 2003) until not too long ago, doing a search on the web, discovered that it had been reproduced on CD and now owned by Sony. I was elated to get it again. I have listened to many artists' rendition of The Emperor and they all stink by comparison. Fleisher's playing, along with this orchestra is nothing short of perfection! His playing skill was phenomenal. Other artists play the piano too slowly, and miss so much of the character of the piece, because many passages need "effect" that Fleisher brings out in his performance. I cry sometimes listening to this because of how excellent it is. Another critic wrote about the Cleveland Orchestra and Fleisher on piano, saying that they work perfectly together, complementing one another in the most exquisite ways, fully aware of one another, seeming to accent one another at perfect times, and laying back to allow each other their time of expression, also in the perfect way. He was so right in his analysis. This is as good as it gets! Buy it. Some Background: Leon Fleisher was a child prodigy on piano and was winning awards and honor, competing against Russian pianists and winning.  His career cut short in 1965 by a strange paralysis in his right arm, which was only worsened as Leon tried harder to make his arm work.  He contemplated suicide, but realized he loved music and did not want that to end.  A medical procedure in 2004 gave him back the use of his right arm. Here is a very short transcript of the 20-minute interview Charlie Rose of CBS 60-minutes conducted with Fleisher in 2005.  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-tale-of-two-hands/ Then imagine how I felt about this pianist and the recording I had stumbled upon in the 1970s in a bargain box at a music store, and my yearning to obtain it again when it was no longer available, and then the utter amazement of his being interviewed on TV by Charlie Rose... God was involved in all of this.

Regarding bagatelles, I read somewhere that they can be considered as musical sketches, ideas, that were never developed into full scale concertos.  If that statement is true it boggles my mind at what they could have become.  Like a sketch pad of ideas and he did not live long enough to develop them into full scale (smile).  The bagatelles are so wonderful, and a few of them are under 1-minute long!  The finger work on some of them are flabbergasting. If you do happen to get that CD, one of my favorites is track #9 (Opus 119 #2 Andante con moto).  Only 47 seconds in length. Track #20 (Op. 126 #2 Allegro) is really neat and #3 Presto is awesome. And #6 Presto Andante amabile e con moto, too.  So much wonder in these. I love them all and have listened to that CD hundreds of times.  Truly.

I agree with those Beethoven pieces you mentioned as being fantastic, except perhaps for the late string quartets.  I'm referring to the things that came at the near end of his life.  He began to experiment, I believe it was characterized as by one writer.  II heard some portrayed in a movie about Beethoven and thought the same thing.  "Huh?" Regarding the bagatelles, may I suggest what I believe to be most fantastic recording of them performed by Stephen Kovacevich on a great sounding Steinway.  Magnificent playing and just the right amount of reverb. His performance of them is stellar. 24 tracks.  I don't know Classical music and all the technical things like so many do.  Apparently there are more than 24 bagatelles?  Some near mint copies still available for sale on this link:   https://www.discogs.com/release/5159102-Beethoven-Stephen-Bishop-Kovacevich-Bagatellen   BTW, the performances on that disk are the best.  I have listened to him do them on Youtube from other recordings, and they are not good.  On the disk I am linking, the performances are played faster, perfect articulations, and sound way better than the slower versions I have heard elsewhere. 

I feel like this piece does not need clef changing The violin only stays in treble clef The cello could go into treble but I think it’s better that it goes into tenor which you should do that if the passage goes into the high range and you have stuff that’s above 4 legger lines it does sound good though also try to add some slurring in there if the fastest stuff is bowed separately then it will sound really sloppy anyways, good work