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It is considered one of the most challenging piano works from Beethoven. The rondo part contains pedal trills and quick left hand runs. The coda section is full with gliding octaves (glissando) between the two hands. It is believed that the unusual pedaling was made possible and inspired by Beethoven’s new Érard piano that he received just a year e...
The Waldstein piano sonata was never intended for amateur players, rather as one of the grand sonatas (Grande Sonate). A review in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung wrote, “The first and last movements belong among the most brilliant and original pieces for which we are grateful to this master, but they are also full of strange whims and very dif...
Just as with his Eroica Symphony(his third), with Waldstein he expanded the possibilities of an instrument and a genre. With this sonata he utilized every bit of the musical elements there are for a piano work: key, form, rhythm, volume, harmony and melody… and of course the master pianist techniques. For many this composition could be a worthy cli...
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Many collectors know Wilhelm Kempff’s Beethoven sonatas through his respective mono and stereo LP-era cycles. Kempff also recorded nearly all of the 32 for German Polydor between the late 1920s and early war years, along with sundry short pieces and all but one of the concertos. From this Beethovenian trove Hänssler offers three “name ...
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, known as the Waldstein, is one of the three most notable sonatas of his middle period . Completed in summer 1804 and surpassing Beethoven's previous piano sonatas in its scope, the Waldstein is a key early work of Beethoven's "Heroic" decade (1803–1812) and set a standard for piano ...
