Ludwig van Beethoven: Klaviersonaten Nr.1-32 (9 CDs)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Louis Lortie, Helene Mercier

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Artists:: Louis Lortie, Helene Mercier
Label:: Chandos
Year of recording ca.:: 1991-10
UPC/EAN:: 0095115161623
Release date:: 22.10.2010

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This box set of the complete piano sonatas is a must for all lovers of Beethoven and great piano playing. The compositions are bold and beautiful, challenging, witty and fresh. They seem to encompass all aspects of human sensibility and aspiration, and the superb playing of Louis Lortie takes the music to another level. His recording of the composer's »Eroica« Variations, which won an Edison Award, was described by

Gramophone in glowing terms:
»His account… is spacious and magisterial, virile yet sensitive, and the wide range of dynamic nuance and keyboard colour is there to illumine Beethoven's textures and not highlight the artist's pianism. He succeeds in communicating the power of Beethoven's imagination: the part-writing in the fugue emerges with a masterly clarity, and is beautifully weighted and balanced.«

Highlights among the new recordings are that of the sublime Sonata No. 30, composed in 1820 – 22, which displays all the characteristics of Beethoven's last creative phase: rich harmonic structures, a fascination with intricate counterpoint, and a strict adherence to classical and baroque forms. Also worthy of a separate mention is Sonata No. 22, a veritable study in contrasts. Its two complementary themes – a gracious, dignified »feminine« theme resembling a minuet, and a stamping, assertive, »masculine« theme – gradually influence one another in the course of the movement until they become thoroughly integrated and combined in the final passages.

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»Editor's Choice«
»…These are performances to treasure and revisit and Chandos's immaculate sound and presentation are a crowning touch.« Bryce Morrison

BBC Music Magazine – Christmas – 2010
»Album of the Week«
»This French-Canadian pianist has been systematically laying down definitive recordings of Beethoven's sonatas for the past 20 years, and its great to have them collected. Technical perfection goes without saying; his artistry is subtle and revelatory, bringing out the sheer excitement of the early works, and the majesty of the late ones.« Michael Church

Tracklisting

Disk 1 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Allegro
2 II. Adagio
3 Iii. Menuetto: Allegretto
4 IV. Prestissimo
5 I. Allegro vivace
6 II. Largo appassionato
7 Iii. Scherzo: Allegretto - Trio
8 IV. Rondo: Grazioso
9 I. Allegro con brio
10 II. Adagio
11 Iii. Scherzo: Allegro - Trio
12 IV. Allegro assai
13 I. Allegro molto
14 II. Rondo: Moderato

Disk 2 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Molto allegro e con brio
2 II. Adagio molto
3 Iii. Finale: Prestissimo
4 I. Allegro
5 II. Allegretto
6 Iii. Finale: Presto
7 I. Presto
8 II. Largo e mesto
9 Iii. Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto: Allegro
10 IV. Rondo: Allegro
11 I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
12 II. Adagio cantabile
13 Iii. Rondo: Allegro

Disk 3 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Allegro
2 II. Allegretto
3 Iii. Rondo: Allegro Comodo
4 I. Allegro
5 II. Andante
6 Iii. Scherzo: Allegro Assai
7 I. Allegro con brio
8 II. Adagio con molto espressione
9 Iii. Minuetto
10 IV. Rondo: Allegretto
11 I. Andante con variazioni
12 II. Scherzo: Molto allegro
13 Iii. Marcia Funebre Sulla Morte D'un Eroe
14 IV. Allegro

Disk 4 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Andante
2 II. Allegro molto e vivace
3 Iii. Adagio Con Espressione
4 IV. Allegro vivace
5 I. Adagio sostenuto
6 II. Allegretto
7 Iii. Presto Agitato
8 I. Allegro
9 II. Andante
10 Iii. Scherzo: Allegro Vivace
11 IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

Disk 5 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Allegro vivace
2 II. Adagio grazioso
3 Iii. Rondo: Allegretto
4 I. Largo - Allegro
5 II. Adagio
6 Iii. Allegretto
7 I. Allegro
8 II. Scherzo: Allegretto vivace
9 Iii. Menuetto: Moderato E Grazioso - Trio
10 IV. Presto con fuoco

Disk 6 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Molto allegro
2 II. Largo con gran espressione
3 Iii. Allegro
4 IV. Rondo: Poco allegretto
5 I. Andante
6 II. Rondo: Allegro
7 I. Allegro ma non troppo
8 II. Tempo di menuetto
9 I. Allegro con brio
10 II. Introduzione: Adagio molto
11 Iii. Rondo: Allegretto Moderato - Prestissimo

Disk 7 von 9 (CD)

1 I. In tempo d'un minuetto
2 II. Allegretto - Piu allegro
3 I. Allegro assai
4 II. Andante con moto
5 Iii. Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Presto
6 I. Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
7 II. Allegro vivace
8 I. Presto alla tedesca
9 II. Andante
10 Iii. Vivace
11 I. Das Lebewohl: Adagio - Allegro
12 II. Abwesenheit: Andante espressivo
13 Iii. Das Wiedersehn: Vivacissimamente

Disk 8 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Mit lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
2 II. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen
3 I. Allegretto ma non troppo
4 II. Vivace alla marcia
5 Iii. Adagio Ma Non Troppo Con Affeto - Presto
6 IV. Allegro
7 I. Allegro
8 II. Scherzo: Assai vivace - Presto - Tempo I
9 Iii. Adagio Sostenuto, Appassionato E Con Molto Sentimento
10 IV. Largo - Allegro risoluto

Disk 9 von 9 (CD)

1 I. Vivace ma non troppo
2 II. Prestissimo
3 Iii. Gesangvoll, Mit Innigster Empfindung: Andante Molto Cantabile Ed Espressivo
4 Iii. Variation 1: Molto Espressivo
5 Iii. Variation 2: Leggieramente
6 Iii. Variation 3: Allegro Vivace
7 Iii. Variation 4: Etwas Langsamer, Als Das Thema
8 Iii. Variation 5: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
9 Iii. Variation 6: Tempo I Del Tema
10 I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
11 II. Allegro molto
12 Iii. Adagio Ma Non Troppo -
13 Iii. Adagio Ma Non Troppo -
14 Iii. Fuga: Allegro Ma Non Troppo -
15 Iii. L'istesso Tempo Di Arioso -
16 Iii. L'istesso Tempo Della Fuga Poi A Poi Di Nuovo Vivente
17 I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
18 II. Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
19 II. [Variation 1] -
20 II. [Variation 2] L'istesso tempo -
21 II. [Variation 3] L'istesso tempo -
22 II. [Variation 4] -
23 II. [Variation 5]

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