BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas 3,4, 27

Catalog Number: RRC1185
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD

Categories: Instrumental Music
Budget Periods: Romantic

Composers: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Performers: Sviatoslav Richter

Available: 2
Price: $8.99

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Piano Sonata No.3 in C major (Op. 2, No. 3)
Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major (Op. 7)
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor (Op. 90>

Sviatoslav Richter, piano

	Track Listing	Time
	Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3
1	Allegro con brio	10:20
2	Adagio	7:34
3	Scherzo. Allegro	3:28
4	Assai allegro	4:48
	Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 7
5	Allegro molto e con brio	8:25
6	Largo, con grand' espressione	7:54
7	Allegro - Minore	5:31
8	Rondo. Poco allegro e grazioso	5:48
	Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
9	Con vivicita e sempre con sentimento ed espressione	5:21
10	Non troppo presto e molto cantabile	6:26

Orchestral solidity of sound makes the first movements immediately impressive. But the true scaling of heights comes in the slow movement of the C major - a colassal psychodrama here-and, unexpectedly, in the shadowy third movement of the E flat. Th Op. 90 sonata is mellower, never to the point of actually smiling, but unobtrusively responsive to the direction of Beethoven's thought. Only a select few pianists are so in touch with Beethoven the awe-inspirer; and of those is there any who can match Richter for sustained intensity and will-power?
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