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Piano Sonatas
Beehtoven, Feltsman
Piano Sonatas
Genre: Classical
 
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Vladimir Feltsman has definite ideas about the Hammerklavier and the ability to carry them out, not something we can take for granted. He plays the first movement with emphasis on rhetoric, occasionally sacrificing forwa...  more »

     
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All Artists: Beehtoven, Feltsman
Title: Piano Sonatas
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Total Copies: 0
Label: Music Masters Jazz
Release Date: 5/19/1998
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Romantic (c.1820-1910)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 016126710723

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Vladimir Feltsman has definite ideas about the Hammerklavier and the ability to carry them out, not something we can take for granted. He plays the first movement with emphasis on rhetoric, occasionally sacrificing forward motion, but certainly making his points. There is no sacrifice of motion in the horrendously difficult finale, though, where the pianist keeps the music going with great power and impressive clarity. Only the slow movement requires the degree of eloquence that we hear throughout No. 28, a treasure of a performance. This is some very impressive Beethoven playing, very well recorded. --Leslie Gerber
 

CD Reviews

Crisp, Clean, Delicious
Stephen G Bowden | NC School of the Arts | 06/17/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Hammerklavier is widely considered the most difficult work Beethoven wrote, period. And it is. Mr. Feltsman, an obvious intellectual pianist, breaks this piece apart and puts it together splendidly. Every chord, every vicious, scathing run and hand-cramping passage is crisp and confident.The A Major sonata (Op. 101) is fantastic as usual. It is nevertheless terrifying hard to make clean, but Feltsman accomplishes the task with seeming ease. The best performance I've heard of No. 28, easily topping Schnabel, who is supposedly one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of all time."