Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (10 CD set. )

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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (10 CD set. )
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

[ Decca Bargain Boxes / 10 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Tuesday 12 October 2004

"(Ashkenazy) delivers the music with songful grace as well as strength"
(Gramophone)

"The Appassionata and other big middle-period works suit Ashkenazy admirably; there are no problems here save perhaps with that hard forte tone, maybe acceptable in Op. 57 and in the finale of Les adieux but less so in the different world inhabited by Opp. 78 and 79 (in the second movement of which the finale is dispatched rather brusquely too) and the second movement of Op. 109. But in the lilting finale of Op. 90 and again in Op. 101 he delivers the music with songful grace as well as strength; the fugal finale of Op. 101 dances as well. In scaling the mighty peaks of the last four sonatas-Ashkenazy is again more straightforward than Barenboim, so that the Hammerklavier is less titanic and the Arietta of Op. 111, though eloquent, is not so soul-searching; but the first movement of this last sonata is magnificent and the quiet nobility of the playing of the work as a whole will be refreshing if you want a change from the musical expression of Goethean imponderables."
(Gramophone Magazine)

Tracks:

Andante favori,WoO57
Sonata for Piano No 1,Op. 2/1
Sonata for Piano No 2,Op. 2/2
Sonata for Piano No 3,Op. 2/3
Sonata for Piano No 4,Op. 7
Sonata for Piano No 5,Op. 10/1
Sonata for Piano No 6,Op. 10/2
Sonata for Piano No 7,Op. 10/3
Sonata for Piano No 8, 'Pathétique',Op. 13
Sonata for Piano No 9,Op. 14/1
Sonata for Piano No 10,Op. 14/2
Sonata for Piano No 11,Op. 22
Sonata for Piano No 12,Op. 26
Sonata for Piano No 13, 'quasi una fantasia',Op. 27/1
Sonata for Piano No 14, 'Moonlight',Op. 27/2
Sonata for Piano No 15, 'Pastoral',Op. 28
Sonata for Piano No 16,Op. 31/1
Sonata for Piano No 17, 'Tempest',Op. 31/2
Sonata for Piano No 18,Op. 31/3
Sonata for Piano No 19,Op. 49/1
Sonata for Piano No 20,Op. 49/2
Sonata for Piano No 21, 'Waldstein',Op. 53
Sonata for Piano No 22,Op. 54 Sonata for Piano No 23, 'Appassionata',Op. 57
Sonata for Piano No 24,Op. 78
Sonata for Piano No 25,Op. 79
Sonata for Piano No 26, 'Les adieux',Op. 81a
Sonata for Piano No 27,Op. 90
Sonata for Piano No 28,Op. 101
Sonata for Piano No 29, 'Hammerklavier',Op. 106
Sonata for Piano No 30,Op. 109
Sonata for Piano No 31,Op. 110
Sonata for Piano No 32,Op. 111