Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Moonlight, Waldstein & Appassionata (2006)

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Moonlight, Waldstein & Appassionata (2006)
EAC rip | Ape(image) - Cue - Log | Full scans + Covers | 1 CD | 190 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | RAR 5% Rec. | SM + Hotfile + Fileserve

Review: I first heard Pletnev playing the Waldstein sonata on an FM radio station while I was driving, and I HAD to buy his recording! His Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas are excellent, but I would recommend you listen carefully to the first movement of his Waldstein: he tremelo playing is so rapid and even that he can create the illusion of a sustained note and then, as he plays alternately softer and louder on that note, he creates an illusion that no piano can really produce: "swelling" in volume. In reality (as most people already know), the pedals of a piano can let a player take a note from loud to soft--but not (unlike many OTHER instruments, such as organs or violins or horns) from soft to loud.

I own about 50 CDs with Beethoven's piano sonatas on them, and I have never heard anything like this. I have repeatedly listened to 18 other famous pianists playing the Waldstein, and a few come close to this effect, perhaps deliberately, perhaps by chance. I have spoken with several pianists about this, and they have found it a very remarkable and interesting way of playing.

Two of my friends prefer the playing of Emile Gilels, but I would travel 50 miles to hear Pletnev play Beethoven.

Happy listening!

Tracklisting

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor "Moonlight" Op. 27 No. 2
1. I. Adagio sostenuto - 7:17
2. II. Allegretto - 2:14
3. III. Presto agitato - 7:55
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major "Waldstein" Op. 53
4. I. Allegro con brio - 10:33
5. II. Introduzione (Adagio molto) - 3:41
6. III. Rondo (Allegretto moderato) - 9:34
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata" Op. 57
7. I. Allegro assai - 11:05
8. II. Andante con moto - 6:57
9. III. Allegro, ma non troppo - Presto - 7:37
Mikhail Pletnev - piano
Recording: Abbey Road Studios, London, May-June 1988


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