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The best modern performances of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas, with brief description, analysis, and performance reviews.
Listen to 5 files/day for free ... Beethoven, Ludwig van. Bonn 1770 - Vienna 1827 . Piano Sonatas : ... Sonatas for piano four-hands:
Piano Sonatas, Ops 10 & 13. Deux-Elles DXL1161. Louis Lortie. Even Beethoven’s Op.2, his first acknowledged sonatas, which are explicitly Haydnesque sonatas, are filled with wonderful new things. Listen to the slow movement of Op.2, No.3, which at first is reminiscent of Bach: Beethoven gives you a simple chorale but then mixes in strange ...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period ; it was composed during 1804 and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February ...
Igor Levit has a recent album (Grammy nominated) of all of Beethoven's piano sonatas. You can find it on Spotify (and likely on other major streaming services). He's very good and also has a great social media presence if you want to see him play (Instagram live and reels in particular). I recommend just going through the whole cycle.
Jan 20, 2007 · Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 3 [Audio CD] Ludwig von Beethoven and John O'Conor … Amazon.com. This is the only disc I have heard in John O'Conor's complete series of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas for Telarc. Afterwards, I didn't listen to any more of them. O'Conor's playing of these middle-period Beethoven sonatas is perfectly respectable.
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Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (Graff fortepiano) Melnikov works wonders with his 1828 Graff piano, managing to make it less clattery and more piano-like than in most other fortepiano recordings. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, More…. Release Date: 10th Feb 2014.
