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Beethoven, Schnabel
Piano Sonatas 27 30 31 & 32
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90: Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
2. Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90: Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen
3. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
4. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
5. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
6. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Allegro molto
7. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: Adagio ma non troppo / Fuga, Allegro ma non troppo
8. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
9. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
10. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Track Listings (10) - Disc #2
1. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
2. Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major ('Grand Sonata'), Op. 7: Allegro molto e con brio
3. Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major ('Grand Sonata'), Op. 7: Largo, con gran espressione
4. Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major ('Grand Sonata'), Op. 7: Allegro
5. Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major ('Grand Sonata'), Op. 7: Rondo, Poco Allegretto e grazioso
6. Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14/1
7. Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14/1
8. Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14/2: Allegro
9. Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14/2: Andante
10. Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14/2: Scherzo, Allegro assai
Track Listings (13) - Disc #3
1. Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
2. Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
3. Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
4. Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
5. Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
6. Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
7. Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
8. Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
9. Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
10. Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major ('Funeral March'), Op. 26
11. Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major ('Funeral March'), Op. 26
12. Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major ('Funeral March'), Op. 26
13. Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major ('Funeral March'), Op. 26
Track Listings (6) - Disc #4
1. Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major ('Funeral March'), Op. 26
2. Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major ('Quasi una fantasia'), Op. 27/1
3. Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major ('Quasi una fantasia'), Op. 27/1
4. Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major ('Quasi una fantasia'), Op. 27/1
5. Variations (6) on an original theme for piano in F major, Op. 34
6. Variations (6) on an original theme for piano in F major, Op. 34
Track Listings (12) - Disc #5
1. Double Trumpet Concerto for 2 trumpets, strings & continuo in C major, RV 537
2. Double Concerto, for violin & oboe, strings & continuo in B flat major, RV 548
3. String Quartet in F major, Op. 1/3
4. String Quartet in F major, Op. 1/3
5. String Quartet in F major, Op. 1/3
6. String Quartet in F major, Op. 1/3
7. String Quartet in G minor, Op. 1/2
8. String Quartet in G minor, Op. 1/2
9. String Quartet in G minor, Op. 1/2
10. String Quartet in G minor, Op. 1/2
11. String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 1/1
12. String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 1/1
Track Listings (3) - Disc #6
1. String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 1/1
2. String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 1/1
3. Blumenlieder, 21 songs for voice & piano, Op. 500: No. 1, Blumen schenken (Offering Flowers)
Track Listings (4) - Disc #7
1. Pierrot, komm, trag mich nach Haus
2. Servus, du!
3. Spiel auf deiner Geige das Lied von Leid und Lust
4. Piano Concerto in A minor
Track Listings (10) - Disc #8
1. Violin Concerto in D minor
2. Scenario, quartet for 2 violins, cello & piano, HC 160
3. Wedding Anniversary Music, for 3 instruments (Anniversary Piece No. 55), HC 843
4. Duet for Sidney with Love from Henry, for violin & cello (Anniversary Piece No. 36), HC 766
5. Work(s) Overview: Andante for violin & cello
6. Trio for flute, cello & piano
7. Elegy for piano trio
8. Trio, Op. 112
9. Concerto for clarinet & orchestra in B flat major, Op 101
10. Variations for clarinet & orchestra, QR vi/57
Track Listings (9) - Disc #9
1. Study for clarinet No. 1
2. Concertino (untitled work) for clarinet & small orchestra in B flat major
3. Variations for clarinet & orchestra, QR vi/57
4. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major, Op. 76
5. Clarinet Quintet in A major ('Stadler'), K. 581: Allegro
6. Clarinet Quintet in A major ('Stadler'), K. 581: Larghetto
7. Clarinet Quintet in A major ('Stadler'), K. 581: Menuetto & Trio I, II
8. Clarinet Quintet in A major ('Stadler'), K. 581: Allegro con Variazioni
9. Quintet for clarinet & strings in B flat major, J. 182 (Op. 34)

CD Details

All Artists: Beethoven, Schnabel
Title: Piano Sonatas 27 30 31 & 32
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arkadia: the 78's
Release Date: 11/1/1998
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Romantic (c.1820-1910), Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 789368762323, 8011571785397

Synopsis

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Originally recorded in 1932, the music on this reissue sounds remarkably good and clear. The playing is fabulous. Artur Schnabel, one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of his time, combined intellectual analytical rigor with passionate emotional involvement. His playing of these great late masterpieces has an incomparable grandeur of conception; every detail is important yet fits into the overall structure. He takes time for poised transitions, brings out contrapuntal lines, not afraid of changing tempos to underline character and contrast or of speeding up and slowing down with the ebb and flow of the music. However, his freedom and plasticity, though spontaneous and rhapsodic, are always organic, never willful or excessive; coherence and rhythmic stability remain intact. He plumbs the depths and scales the heights of musical expression, from sweeping impetuosity to ecstasy and serene repose. --Edith Eisler

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CD Reviews

For late Beethoven Schnabel is often the peak.

John Grabowski | USA | 05/02/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I should start off this review by saying I am not a completely devoted Schnabel admirer. Unlike some, I cannot overlook the sometimes technical lapses in his playing, and they are here in a few spots. Overall, though, the late sonatas allow great interprative latitude and freedom in tempi, rubato, etc., and so, as in Schubert, Schnabel is at his peak. Some of these performances are simply without equal: the opening of Op. 109, the slow movement to Op. 106, and above all, the Arietta from Op. 111, which just might be, to me, *the* single greatest piano performance of anything I have ever heard. Schnabel stops time here, and this movement is best enjoyed by taking the phone off the hook, turning off all other bepin devices, and locking the kids and the dog in the closet. (Just kidding with that last one...maybe.) Other pianists have played this music, of course, and I have maybe thirty different performances of the last sonatas, my favorite music (including another set of performances by Schnabel of Opp. 109 and 111 on the Philips Great Pianists series that don't hold up to these). There's nothing like these recordings. I hope that if someday we all go up in a big mushroom cloud, these performances survive somehow. The peak of the peak of the peak."