Description
Title: Complete Piano Sonatas 2
Artist: Giovanni Bellucci
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421951317
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-09-18
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: 3 PACK
The second volume of Giovanni Bellucci”s Beethoven cycle for Brilliant Classics takes the listener on a journey of six eventful years, from Op.22 of 1800 to the ”Appassionata” Sonata of 1806. During that time Beethoven established himself as Vienna”s pre-eminent pianist-composer. He came to regard Op.22 as the best of his ”early” sonatas but a sea-change in the deepening of his expression is already evident in the piano-writing of Op.26, with it”s funeral march ”in memory of a hero”. There follow the remarkable formal innovations of the Op.27 pair – No.2 immortally inscribed on the popular imagination as the ”Moonlight” – and then the smooth, undulating rhythms of the ”Pastorale” Op.28. The trio of Op.31 sonatas present a study in contrasts, from the graceful profile of No.1 in G major to the sound and fury of the ”Tempest” No.2 and then the hectic momentum of No.3, presaging the concision of works at the end of his ”middle” period such as the ”Serioso” Quartet and the Eighth Symphony. The proportions of the two-movement Op.54 are even more tautly circumscribed, before the reach of Beethoven”s expressive range for his instrument expands to hitherto undreamt heights in the ”Waldstein” Op.53 and the ”Appassionata” Op.57. Giovanni Bellucci is among the most strikingly individual of modern pianists. Described by Italian critic Piero Rattalino as ”a force of nature, vast and palpitating”, he cultivates an old-fashioned richness of piano timbre while still attending to the letter as well as the spirit of Beethoven”s scores. According to Le Monde, ”he takes us back to the Golden Age of the Piano”. His recordings have been showered with prizes such as Diapason d”Or, Choc, Editor”s Choice in Gramophone, CD Maestro etc.
Tracks:
1.1 Sonata No. 11 in B flat Op. 22~Allegro con brio
1.2 Sonata No. 11 in B flat Op. 22~Adagio con molta espressione
1.3 Sonata No. 11 in B flat Op. 22~Minuetto
1.4 Sonata No. 11 in B flat Op. 22~Rondo. Allegretto
1.5 Sonata No. 12 in A flat Op. 26 “”Funeral March””~Andante con Variazioni
1.6 Sonata No. 12 in A flat Op. 26 “”Funeral March””~Scherzo: Allegro molto
1.7 Sonata No. 12 in A flat Op. 26 “”Funeral March””~Marcia funebre sulla morte d”un Eroe: Maestoso andante
1.8 Sonata No. 12 in A flat Op. 26 “”Funeral March””~Allegro
1.9 Sonata No. 13 in E flat Op. 27 No. 1 “”Sonata quasi una fantasia””~Andante – Allegro – Tempo I (attacca subito l”Allegro)
1.10 Sonata No. 13 in E flat Op. 27 No. 1 “”Sonata quasi una fantasia””~Allegro molto e vivace (attacca subito l”Adagio)
1.11 Sonata No. 13 in E flat Op. 27 No. 1 “”Sonata quasi una fantasia””~Adagio con espressione (attacca subito l”Allegro vivace)
1.12 Sonata No. 13 in E flat Op. 27 No. 1 “”Sonata quasi una fantasia””~Allegro vivace – Tempo I – Presto
1.13 Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 “”Moonlight””~Adagio sostenuto (attacca subito il seguente)
1.14 Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 “”Moonlight””~Allegretto
1.15 Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 “”Moonlight””~Presto agitato
2.1 Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1~Allegro vivace
2.2 Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1~Adagio grazioso
2.3 Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1~Rondo: Allegretto
2.4 Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 “”The Tempest””~Largo – Allegro
2.5 Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 “”The Tempest””~Adagio
2.6 Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 “”The Tempest””~Allegretto
2.7 Sonata No. 18 in E flat Op. 31 No. 3 “”The Hunt””~Allegro
2.8 Sonata No. 18 in E flat Op. 31 No. 3 “”The Hunt””~Scherzo: Allegretto vivace
2.9 Sonata No. 18 in E flat Op. 31 No. 3 “”The Hunt””~Menuetto: Moderato e grazioso
2.10 Sonata No. 18 in E flat Op. 31 No. 3 “”The Hunt””~Presto con fuoco
2.11 Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54~In Tempo d”un Menuetto
2.12 Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54~Allegretto
3.1 Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 “”Pastorale””~Allegro
3.2 Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 “”Pastorale””~Andante
3.3 Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 “”Pastorale””~Scherzo: Allegro vivace
3.4 Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 “”Pastorale””~Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
3.5 Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 “”Waldstein””~Allegro con brio
3.6 Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 “”Waldstein””~Introduzione: Adagio molto (attacca subito il Rondo)
3.7 Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 “”Waldstein””~Rondo: Allegretto moderato – Prestissimo
3.8 Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 “”Appassionata””~Allegro assai
3.9 Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 “”Appassionata””~Andante con moto (attacca l”Allegro)
3.10 Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 “”Appassionata””~Allegro ma non troppo – Presto
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