Ludwig van Beethoven
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Maria João Pires BEETHOVEN - Sonatas "Quasi una fantasia"
In spite of the high regard in which Maria João Pires holds Beethoven and his music, it has been decades since the Portuguese pianist last set foot in a studio to record his works. Although she regularly performs them in the concert hall, and even established her international reputation by winning the first prize at the Beethoven International Competition held in Brussels in 1970 to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth, it is only now, in the special recording conditions that exist in her own cultural centre of Belgais in Portugal, that she feels the time has come to record an album of Beethoven Sonatas. The recording centres on the Moonlight Sonata, which was written almost exactly two centuries ago.
Beethoven himself referred to the "Moonlight" Sonata of 1801 simply as a Sonata "Quasi una fantasia". It appears in the present recording alongside the other Sonata so described by the composer - the contemporaneous op. 27 no. 1 - as well as the Sonata op. 109 of 1820. This programme documents Maria João Pires's interest in Beethoven's virtually unparalleled artistic development. By juxtaposing the two fantasy-sonatas of op. 27, relatively early works, with the late Sonata op. 109, she clearly demonstrates the differences between these two periods of his career.
In the already extensive catalogue of Maria João Pires on Deutsche Grammophon, this CD is the first containing works by Beethoven. (DG)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No.13 in E flat, Op.27 No.1
1) 1. Andante - Allegro - Tempo I [4:49]
2) 2. Allegro molto e vivace [1:47]
3) 3. Adagio con espressione [3:02]
4) 4. Allegro vivace - Tempo I - Presto [5:53]
Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight"
5) 1. Adagio sostenuto [6:52]
6) 2. Allegretto [2:08]
7) 3. Presto agitato [7:39]
Piano Sonata No.30 in E major, Op.109
8) 1. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo - Tempo I [4:06]
9) 2. Prestissimo [2:28]
10) 3. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung (Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo) [12:14]
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