Beethoven: The Last 3 Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Last 3 Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111
Anne Queffélec (piano)
[ Mirare / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 11 September 2022
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To echo Beethoven's own words, "Music is the only incorporeal introduction to the world of knowledge... a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy... reaching beyond even the starry sky to the original source."
That is indeed where the epiphanies of the ultima verba uttered by the last three sonatas take us: on a journey of initiation that could not be undertaken in reverse. Let us listen to it... "The rest is silence." - Anne Queffélec
"Queffélec offers readings which seem rather consciously to pursue the middle way - avoiding extreme tempos, mitigating dynamic contrasts, seeking to mask seriousness with a certain spontaneity, sustained by flexible phrasing and generous pedalling, as if to remind us that the sound matters as well as the sense." BBC Music
"Here you have the sense that she has been pondering these pieces for decades - and they emerge as personal and deeply considered." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2023
Tracks:
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
