Moto Perpetuo
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BEETHOVEN
Moto Perpetuo
Javier Perianes (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 November 2012
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If the device known as moto perpetuo has travelled all through the history of music, from Franco-Flemish polyphony down to the American minimalists, it is probably because it encourages us to question our relationship with the infinite. More than a century before the constructivist movement, when he explored this eminently mechanistic form, Beethoven already took that process of questioning to the brink of existential vertigo! His works form the basis of the enthralling programme presented here by Javier Perianes.
"Perianes' technique is quietly impressive … he uses it to serve the music. This is very appealing. Harmonia Mundi's recorded sound in the present release is well suited to Periane's attractive pianistic touch and tone." (International Record Review)
"Perianes approaches Beethoven with a freshness and individuality that is immediately engaging. The opening movement of Sonata No. 12, Op. 26 demonstrates some exceptional qualities, most obviously his ability to maximise contrast and characterisation between the different variations; he produces a beautifully veiled tone for those passages of a more reflective nature." (BBC Music)
"Perianes sets an appropriately veiled mood in the Tempest Sonata's first-movement introduction and throughout the Adagio but elsewhere rounds out the music's angular edges and dramatic surges." (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre'
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
