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Stephen Kovacevich - Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (2003)

Stephen Kovacevich - Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (2003)

BAND/ARTIST: Stephen Kovacevich

  • Title: Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas
  • Year Of Release: 2003
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 10:18:01
  • Total Size: 2 Gb
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Tracklist:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):

CD 1:
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2,1
Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2,2
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2,3

CD 2:
Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major "Grand Sonata", Op. 7
Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10,1
Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10,2
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10,3

CD 3:
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor "Pathétique", Op. 13
Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14,1
Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14,2
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22

CD 4:
Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27,1
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor "Moonlight", Op. 27,2
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major "Pastoral", Op. 28

CD 5:
Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31,1
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor "Tempest", Op. 31,2
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major "Hunt", Op. 31,3
Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49,1
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49,2

CD 6:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major "Waldstein", Op. 53
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata", Op. 57
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major "A Thérèse", Op. 78
Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major "Cuckoo", Op. 79

CD 7:
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major "Les Adieux", Op. 81a
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

CD 8:
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major "Hammerklavier", Op. 106
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110

CD 9:
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
11 Bagatelles for piano, Op. 119
6 Bagatelles for piano, Op. 126

Performers:
Stephen Kovacevich – piano

This cycle of the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven by Stephen Kovacevich recorded between 1991 and 2002 is easily as good or better than the best cycles of the past 50 years. Bishop is a superb virtuoso, a seasoned interpreter, a profound thinker, and a mature man and he brings all these qualities to bear on the greatest cycle of piano sonatas ever composed. Kovacevich hears the depths as well as the excitement of the early sonatas and the breadth as well as the brilliance of the middle sonatas and he limns the face of the infinite in the late sonatas. EMI's digital sound is warm, clear, and real. The liner notes by Beethoven scholar Joseph Kerman are outstanding. For all the undoubted greatness of Arrau, Ashkenazy, Backhaus, Brendel, and Kempff's cycles, only Stephen Kovacevich's cycle comes close to the magisterial achievement of Artur Schnabel's cycle. It is impossible to over-recommend this set.


Stephen Kovacevich - Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (2003)





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