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Beethoven: Alfred Brendel Favourite Piano Sonatas

Beethoven: Alfred Brendel Favourite Piano Sonatas
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
Artist Alfred Brendel piano
Format 3 CD
Cat. number 94272
EAN code 5028421942728
Release August 2011

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About this release

- Alfred Brendels first recording of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas are a landmark of youthful exuberance, a typically young man’s Beethoven, full of vigour, virtuosity and spontaneity.
- This set offers a generous selection of famous piano sonatas, all with nicknames, and therefore known by a wide audience.

Alfred Brendel may have disowned these recordings made for Vox Records in the dawn of his long career, but they still have the power to touch and to move, with a freshness of response that inevitably comes from a young man’s Beethoven, illuminated of course by the sovreign technique and musical intelligence that would only broaden and deepen as the years went by. Brendel has retired from performance now, but we can count ourselves lucky to have these mementoes of a performer for whom perfection and inspiration were never to be considered contradictory qualities or aims.
Included in this set of superb value are the ‘named’ piano sonatas that anyone who comes to Beethoven, and to his piano music, quickly grows to love, and perhaps later to know and understand:
‘Moonlight’
‘Appassionata’
‘Hammerklavier’
‘Pathétique’
‘Les Adieux’
‘Tempest’
‘Waldstein’
‘Pastoral’
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Track list

Disk 1

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’: I. Adagio sostenuto
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’: II. Allegretto
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’: III. Presto agitato
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’: I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’: II. Adagio cantabile
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’: III. Rondo: Allegro
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’: I. Allegro assai
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’: II. Andante con moto
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’: III. Allegro ma non troppo

Disk 2

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’: I. Allegro
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’: II. Scherzo: Assai vivace
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’: III. Adagio sostenuto
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat, Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’: IV. Largo – Allegro risoluto
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat, Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’: I. Les Adieux: Adagio – Allegro
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat, Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’: II. L’Absence: Andante espressivo
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat, Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’: III. Le Retour: Vivacissimamente

Disk 3

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’: I. Largo – Allegro – Adagio
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’: II.Adagio
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’: III.Allegretto
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’: I. Allegro con brio
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’: II. Introduzione: Adagio molto
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’: III. Rondo: Allegretto moderato – Prestissimo
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D, Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’: I. Allegro
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D, Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’: II. Andante
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D, Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’: III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Trio
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