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Beethoven's sonatas: the best recordings - Classical Music. We name some of the finest recordings of the complete cycles of Beethoven's piano sonatas available now to buy or stream.
The best fortepiano recordings of Beethoven that I've heard are all on the Globe label, a superb record label based in Utrecht: Ronald Brautigam has recorded 2CDs: early piano variations, and the first piano sonatas (opera 2 & 49). He plays a 1790s Walter.
The sound is astonishingly good, and the performances full of wisdom. Discover the best recordings of Beethoven's incredible piano sonatas on CD - click on the links to preview and buy them.
Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32. Steven Osborne pf. Hyperion. I was much looking forward to getting my hands on this CD, having chosen Steven Osborne’s previous Beethoven sonata disc, featuring a dangerous and profound Hammerklavier, as my Critics’ Choice in 2016. From the first note, Osborne’s kinship with the composer is everywhere apparent and ...
My favourite Piano Sonata, Opus 110. And yes, if you push me, (please don’t,) my single favourite piece in all Beethoven’s music, Piano Sonata Opus 110. Listen to the recording made in 1967 by Jörg Demus in Beethoven’s birth house in Bonn on the last piano Beethoven owned (built by Conrad Graf). Close your eyes and imagine…
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 32 mature piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. (He also wrote 3 juvenile sonatas at the age of 13 [1] and one unfinished sonata , WoO. 51.) Although originally not intended to be a meaningful whole, as a set they comprise one of the most important collections of works in the history of music . [2]
Feb 15, 2019 · Friday, February 15, 2019. Beethoven’s Op 53 represented a revolution in his piano style, says Patrick Rucker, as he sifts through almost a century of recordings. Beethoven took greater care of his sketchbooks than he did of his finished manuscripts.
