(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME II: SONATAS opp. 10 and 13
PERFORMED BY ANDRAS SCHIFF
BEETHOVEN LUDWIG. VANΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 1639-0090
Παρουσίαση
Schiff's concept to record the sonatas live and on two different pianos has found much respect with reviewers. In an interview for the Swiss magazine Musik und Theater Schiff again outlined his unconventional approach: "I'm fully convinced that vivid performances are possible only in front of an audience. I obviously don't share Glenn Gould's opinion that concerts are superfluous and that work in the recording studio is so much more important. Being an artist you live for those very moments when music really happens." Schiff plays each programme in 15 different cities before recording it in the Zurich Tonhalle, famous for its outstanding acoustics. "I really feel that my performances become more mature from concert to concert. The repetitions are a very valuable lesson." As to his alternating use of a Steinway and a Bosendorfer, both maintained by the renowned piano technician Fabbrini in Italy, Schiff emphasizes Beethoven's versatility as a composer and his great range of sonorities: "Most of his piano sonatas are rather lyrical and smooth pieces - they are poetic, philosophical, sometimes even humorous creations that don't 'bite' in the way the 'Appassionata', the 'Pathetique' or the 'Hammerklavier' sonata do. They have nothing in common with the clich? of the heroic and dramatic Beethoven. That's why I prefer the B?sendorfer in these works."Schiff has repeatedly claimed that Beethoven's early sonatas need to be taken absolutely seriously as they offer highest compositional quality right from the start with op.2. The sonatas op. 10, written between 1796 and 1798 when the composer was not yet thirty years old, form a group of subtly interrelated masterworks. In Schiff's view they are pieces for "connoisseurs and amateurs", each of them displaying its own clearly defined character while the famous 'Grande Sonate Pathetique' dating from 1798/99 introduces a dramatic attitude and a symphonic writing that was to become a central trait of some of Beethoven's most important works.
CD includes a generous booklet with an extensive interview which Andr?s Schiff gave to Martin Meyer, leading editor at the Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
Cover design for the eight volumes of the series incorporates watercolour paintings by Czech-Swiss artist Jan Jedlicka.
[Recorded November 2004]
Περιεχόμενα
Three Sonatas op. 10Dedicated to Countess Anna Margarete von Browne
Sonata No. 5 c minor op. 10/1 (1795-7)
Allegro molto e con brio
Adagio molto
Finale. Prestissimo
Sonata No. 6 F major op. 10/2 (1796-7)
Allegro
Allegretto
Presto
Sonata No. 7 D major op. 10/3 (1797-8)
Presto
Largo e mesto
Menuetto. Allegretto
Rondo. Allegro
Sonata No. 8 c minor op. 13 "Pathetique" (1797-8)
Dedicated to Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
Grave. Allegro molto e con brio
Adagio cantabile
Rondo. Allegro
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