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Save for brittleness in loud passages, Brendel fares marvelously in Op. 78’s finale, pointing up the relentless syncopations and quirky major/minor key alternations. What’s more, Brendel’s underrated ability to project soft playing with body and definition in large venues comes across in the sonata’s opening movement.
Here are five of Beethoven's lesser known sonatas that I think are worth a second (or first!) look, regardless of their popularity: 5: Sonata no. 9 in E Major (op. 14 no. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1xVvgdfg0
I recently got MIDIs of all Beethoven's sonatas, save for the 32nd piano sonata , and I started wondering, which is the most underappreciated? I personally found the second sonata rather underappreciated.
And the later sonatas are well worth hearing too, just so long as we give Brendel the benefit of the doubt, and bear in mind that, while he hadn't managed it in the early 1960s, he would go on to become one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20 th century.
The opening of Sonata No.8 Op.13 “Pathétique” can be one of the most dramatic in the cycle. Brendel spins the introduction out a bit too much in my opinion, and the dotted rhythms are not well enough defined to keep the right kind of intensity.
Discover the best recordings of Beethoven's incredible piano sonatas on CD - click on the links to preview and buy them. “Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,” said the great Austrian pianist Artur Schnabel.
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This reissue of his complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle on Decca was originally recorded for Philips between 1992 and 1996. You're unlikely to get very far into it without being struck by four things: firstly, and most importantly, these are very persuasive, beautiful and dependable interpretations.
