Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 109, 110 & 111

 
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 109, 110 & 111
Steven Osborne (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 3 May 2019

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Beethoven's three final sonatas constitute one of music's great spiritual journeys, one which only a very few pianists are qualified to undertake. Steven Osborne, whose Beethoven has been widely acclaimed, need fear no comparisons.

GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Instrumental

"From the first note, Osborne's kinship with the composer is everywhere apparent and he conveys the vast contrasts of the last three sonatas unerringly...What is particularly winning about this new set is the way Osborne occupies the very different world of each sonata with equal conviction...Osborne has made many outstanding recordings but this is certainly among his finest. A magnificent achievement." - Gramophone Recording Of The Month, May 2019

"Barry Cooper's notes are succinct and rich in useful detail, as one has come to expect from one of the doyens of Beethoven scholarship. I must also mention the terrific recording, superlative even by Hyperion's demanding standards. Producer Stephen Johns and engineer David Hinitt have performed wonders with what sounds like an outstanding Steinway instrument...The sonics seal the deal on a uniquely edifying and moving Beethoven disc. Steven Osborne has here captured what Beethoven's biographer Maynard Solomon pithily characterised as the "…etherealised improvisatory tone…" of the trilogy arguably more convincingly than anyone to date." MusicWeek Recommended Recording

Tracks:

Piano Sonata in E major Op 109 [18'15]
1 Vivace ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo [3'29] -
2 Prestissimo [2'22]
3 Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo: Gesangvoll
mit innigster Empfindung [12'24]

Piano Sonata in A flat major Op 110 [19'36]
4 Moderato, cantabile molto espressivo [6'40]
5 Allegro molto [2'01]
6 Adagio ma non troppo - Fuga: Allegro ma non
troppo [10'55]

Piano Sonata in C minor Op 111 [25'45]
7 Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato [8'24]
8 Arietta: Adagio [17'21]