Schubert - B flat Impromptu / Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Nos 6 & 29
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Label: ICA Classics
Cat No: ICAC5055
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 30th January 2012
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata no.6 in F major, op.10 no.2Piano Sonata no.29 in B flat major, op.106 'Hammerklavier'
Impromptus (4), op.142 D935
Artists
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)Works
Piano Sonata no.6 in F major, op.10 no.2Piano Sonata no.29 in B flat major, op.106 'Hammerklavier'
Impromptus (4), op.142 D935
Artists
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)About
His 1909 abridged recording of the Grieg Concerto was not only the first recording of that work, but the first time any concerto had ever been recorded. Apart from this, he was also the first pianist to record the Chopin Études in 1928. He became a Swiss citizen in 1930 and reached the age of 85. The Times praised Backhaus in its 1969 obituary for having upheld the classical German music tradition of the Leipzig Conservatory.
These recordings have never been issued before on CD, and are in excellent sound for the period. This 1959 concert gives us a rare experience of hearing Backhaus caught ‘live’ in the Beethovenhalle in Bonn in a typical programme of Schubert and Beethoven.
The CD contains a great performance of Beethoven’s monumental ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata. According to the pianist and Beethoven specialist Stephen Kovacevich, Backhaus was the only pianist to have understood the work.
Recorded: Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 24 September 1959
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