Piano Sonatas 27 30 31 & 32

Piano Sonatas 27 30 31 & 32

On this CD:

1. Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Artur Schnabel

2. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Artur Schnabel

3. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Artur Schnabel

4. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Artur Schnabel

Editorial Reviews
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Originally recorded in 1932, the music on this reissue sounds remarkably good and clear. The playing is fabulous. Artur Schnabel, one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of his time, combined intellectual analytical rigor with passionate emotional involvement. His playing of these great late masterpieces has an incomparable grandeur of conception; every detail is important yet fits into the overall structure. He takes time for poised transitions, brings out contrapuntal lines, not afraid of changing tempos to underline character and contrast or of speeding up and slowing down with the ebb and flow of the music. However, his freedom and plasticity, though spontaneous and rhapsodic, are always organic, never willful or excessive; coherence and rhythmic stability remain intact. He plumbs the depths and scales the heights of musical expression, from sweeping impetuosity to ecstasy and serene repose. --Edith Eisler

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Piano Sonatas 27 30 31 & 32

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