Beethoven, L. Van: Piano Sonatas (Complete)
Catalog Number: CD-4640
A poised, poetically alive traversal of Beethoven’s sonatas—music that moves from intimate confession to symphonic breadth—shaped with singing lines, clear architecture, and a spontaneous, humane warmth rooted in the great Central European tradition.
Beethoven, L. Van: Piano Sonatas (Complete)
This album frames the sonatas as Beethoven’s most personal laboratory—works that chart a lifelong adventure in expression, form, and sonority, from veiled lyricism to volcanic release. It highlights the astonishing variety of design: fantasias that unfold in a single breath, funeral marches suspended in stillness, and late pages whose concentrated power seems carved from silence, nowhere more than in the “Hammerklavier,” whose density and inexorable logic test both player and listener. Equally central is the composer’s speaking tone—his markings of innigkeit, appassionato and cantabile—inviting a singing touch and flexible breath across the cycle. The accompanying note evokes a performance ethos grounded in Artur Schnabel’s legacy: spontaneity over fixity, the conviction that great music is “always greater than it can be played,” and the courage to let every phrase feel newly discovered. Heard in this light, the playing balances clarity of structure with a warmly human immediacy; quicksilver wit sits easily beside depth and gravitas, so that each sonata becomes a world unto itself while the full journey traces Beethoven’s arc from youthful fire to late, luminous inwardness.
Published date
2011-04-01
Number of discs
10
Channels
stereo:16:2.0
Made in Sweden since 1999. In collaboration with Textalk.
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