Beethoven - Piano Sonatas 6, 15 & 30 | Gramola 99242

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas 6, 15 & 30

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Label: Gramola

Cat No: 99242

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 17th September 2021

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The young Venezuelan pianist Walkiria Izaguirre, who received her musical training in Vienna, presents her debut CD with a pure Beethoven programme, which features an early, a middle and a late piano sonata and thereby gives an overview of the master’s oeuvre. In her own words, this album is a tribute to one of the most important figures in the history of music, whose musical creativity would reach an unexpected and wonderful development towards freedom and individual expression for eternity. The Sonata in F major, op.10/2, was called one of Beethoven’s most joyful works by Paul Badura-Skoda, the Sonata in D major, op.28, described by him as gentle, idyllic and light-filled to the brim, perhaps a response to the gloomier previous “Moonlight” Sonata, a rejection of depression, a move towards friendlier climes, and is also called the “Pastoral” Sonata. Finally, the Sonata op.109 is kept in the “mystical” key of E major, expressing exhilaration, rapture, earthly, and heavenly love. The variation movement’s theme is proof that, despite some contemporary critic’s judgement, Beethoven was indeed capable of writing beautiful melodies.

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