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Some of My Favorites
Waldstein Sonata
The Tempest Sonata no. 17
Moonlight Sonata
Sonata no. 5
HammerKlavier
I highly recommend getting a full cycle of beethovens piano sonatas. There are also some lectures which give a good context to the pieces to make diving in more manageable.
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back in the day, i had a cassette with Glenn Gould playing various Beethoven's sonatas and it was really wonderful. Gould used to hum as he played so that made it all the more haunting.
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mastaflatch wrote:
back in the day, i had a cassette with Glenn Gould playing various Beethoven's sonatas and it was really wonderful. Gould used to hum as he played so that made it all the more haunting.
These renditions are really fast, and I notice a lot of people write them off because of that. I personally really like his recordings, i like having very different performances to hear the piece in different viewpoints.
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Man in Black wrote:
The first chord of the pathetique is my favorite single moment in music.
I've always wondered how Beethoven managed to write something so darkly melancholic yet so impetuously, passionately romantic.
The sonatas are an amazing collection. A reflection of a man's inner soul, emotional, intellectual, even technical as he matures over a lifetime. Andras Schiff has done a lecture series for the BBC on the whole collection. It's a a wondeful listen.
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SLH916 wrote:
Man in Black wrote:
The first chord of the pathetique is my favorite single moment in music.
I've always wondered how Beethoven managed to write something so darkly melancholic yet so impetuously, passionately romantic.
The sonatas are an amazing collection. A reflection of a man's inner soul, emotional, intellectual, even technical as he matures over a lifetime. Andras Schiff has done a lecture series for the BBC on the whole collection. It's a a wondeful listen.
I've listened to a few of the Andras Schiff lectures. I went through the Teaching Company course on the piano sonatas taught by robert greenberg, which gave good context to the pieces. Do you have a favorite?
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windedsailor wrote:
Do you have a favorite?
I love them all, but for different reasons. And in different moods.
For whatever reason, the Op. 31 sonatas give me a lot of pleasure. I can at least take a stab at playing them to some degree, so different interpretations interest me.
Different performers' take on the transition in and out of movement 2 in the "Appassionata" interest me.
The Op. 111 is always fascinating. Especially when listening to really technically skilled players.
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Owl_Farmer wrote:
the claudio arrau collection is not cutting it for me guys. what other one should i check out?
Artur Schnabel - is a great cycle. It's often called the definitive recording
Vladimir Ashkenazy - is my other go to cycle. When I want to hear a clearer recording I go to this one first. The recording really captures the dynamics of the performances.
Some cycles I've listened to are too flat in their recording, that's why I'm not crazy about Andras Schiff's recordings.
Also I've heard really good things about Claude Frank's cycle of the sonatas, though I haven't been able to get my hands on it.
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