Word: favori
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...nearly 160 years since his death, Beethoven has fended off all contenders to World's Greatest Composer and shows no signs of losing his title. The latest crop of the champ's compact disks: Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Polonaise in C Major, Op. 89; ''Andante Favori.'' Artur Schnabel, piano, with Sir Malcom Sergeant conducting the London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras (Arabesque, three CDs, sold separately). Schnabel, who died in 1951, was an unlikely cult hero. Physically, he was unprepossessing: a short, stocky man with a walrus mustache and stubby fingers that, when they were not at the keyboard...
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