Arrau Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
- Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Claudio Arrau. By Beethoven, Ludwig van on CD. Order from your preferred classical music CD store - ArkivMusic. Great prices. Best service. Fast delivery.
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas. Decca: 4783694. Buy download online. Claudio Arrau (piano).
Artistic Quality: 8 Sound Quality: 5Collectors familiar with the ample elegance and scrupulous technical authority of Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven concerto recordings will find exactly that in these previously unpublished live concert performances from 1957. For his part, Otto Klemperer conducts with greater thrust and vigor than he did in his studio recordings with Daniel Barenboim almost a decade later.
However, the murky, dynamically restricted sound quality drastically reduces the impact of his forwardly balanced winds, especially in regard to crucial solo lines (the bassoon passages in the Third and Fifth Concertos’ opening movements). In other words, the publication of these performances neither helps nor hinders the artists’ reputations, in contrast, say, to their 1954 Chopin E minor concerto collaboration.The rhetorical touches characterizing Arrau’s Philips recordings of Beethoven’s Op. 110 sonatas manifest themselves less extremely in his late-1950s EMI studio traversals. As a result, the F-sharp sonata’s finale makes a more animated impression, if not on the humorous level conveyed by Kempff’s caustic phrasing or Gould’s brash, rabble-rousing fingerwork. And Arrau is less inclined to push and pull Op. 110’s Arioso, although he still takes time to clarify the frequently blurred first-movement left hand runs and the fugue’s taxing rotary passages. Testament’s remastering of Op.
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110 supercedes the one released in EMI’s deleted five-disc Arrau/Beethoven compilation, from which Op. 78 was omitted.Recording Details.
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Many are familiar with at least a few of Beethovens compositions, but some of us are lucky to be or have worked hard,to become familiar with all or almost all his works.Some of Beethovens piano sonatas are a must for any beginner of piano playing, but those who aspire to astound an audience that is in the know, have a gigantic and arduous task ahead of them, many give up on the way to achieving that ambition. Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas throughout all his life, and many of his masterworks, and the most difficult to play, are from his later years, when he was completely deaf and had to use the tuning fok between his teeth to feel the notes he was playing were those he played in his head. My favourite piano sonata is definitely his number 29, Op. 106, the so called 'Hammerklavier'. It has fascinated me for many years, and I keep discovering new subtelties each time I hear it.' Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas' is my playlist in which I invite you to share with me some of the greatest piano sonatas in history!less.