Beethoven - Piano Sonatas & Variations
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4827053
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th June 2017
Contents
Works
Andante favori in F, WoO57Bagatelle no.25 in A minor, WoO59 'Fur Elise'
Bagatelles (6), op.126
Ecossaise in E flat major, WoO86
Piano Sonata no.4 in E flat major, op.7
Piano Sonata no.6 in F major, op.10 no.2
Piano Sonata no.9 in E major, op.14 no.1
Piano Sonata no.19 in G minor, op.49 no.1
Piano Sonata no.24 in F sharp major, op.78 'A Therese'
Piano Sonata no.25 in G major, op.79
Piano Sonata no.31 in A flat major, op.110
Rondo in C major, op.51 no.1
Rondo in G major, op.51 no.2
Variations (32) on an original theme, WoO80
Artists
Andor Foldes (piano)Works
Andante favori in F, WoO57Bagatelle no.25 in A minor, WoO59 'Fur Elise'
Bagatelles (6), op.126
Ecossaise in E flat major, WoO86
Piano Sonata no.4 in E flat major, op.7
Piano Sonata no.6 in F major, op.10 no.2
Piano Sonata no.9 in E major, op.14 no.1
Piano Sonata no.19 in G minor, op.49 no.1
Piano Sonata no.24 in F sharp major, op.78 'A Therese'
Piano Sonata no.25 in G major, op.79
Piano Sonata no.31 in A flat major, op.110
Rondo in C major, op.51 no.1
Rondo in G major, op.51 no.2
Variations (32) on an original theme, WoO80
Artists
Andor Foldes (piano)About
Taken by itself, the release would serve as an ideal introduction to Beethoven’s piano music. Foldes was renowned for his no-frills pianism, just as the composer was known in his own time for lessons which did not fuss about a dropped note here or there but concentrated on expression and direct communication. These are the qualities already to be prized in the Op.7 Sonata, written five years after Beethoven’s decisive move from Bonn to Vienna but still bursting with the exuberance of his 20s.
At the other end of the composer’s career, the release presents Beethoven at his most puzzling and confrontational in the Op.126 Bagatelles – the briefest of which lasts barely ten seconds – and at his most searching in his penultimate Sonata, Op.110.
The Ecossaises and little-known Rondos present a lighter, more carefree side to Beethoven, and his best-known work for piano, Für Elise, shares a tenderness with the more profound slow movement which he had intended to use for the ‘Waldstein’ Sonata but eventually let stand alone as the Andante favori.
Foldes made these recordings over four years at the end of the 1950s, when he was invited across the world to perform the Classical masters which he had most loved since the beginning of his prodigious career: he had performed the First and Fourth concertos in public by the age of eleven. He was a diligent and sober recording artist, as his Beethoven series for Deutsche Grammophon exemplifies.
‘The Ecossaises suddenly break free from the chilly discipline, and blossom delightfully… The recording is at once deep and clear.’ - Gramophone, March 1958
‘Foldes has quite wonderful technique. It is impossible to think of his ever playing strings of wrong notes; one could more easily believe his last wrong note occurred in 1949, so assured does he sound. His playing is beautifully clean.’ - Gramophone, November 1959 (Rondos)
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