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Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Gulda
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Sonata No.14 In C Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2, 'Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto
2. Sonata No.14 In C Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2, 'Moonlight': Allegretto & Trio
3. Sonata No.14 In C Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2, 'Moonlight': Presto agitato
4. Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28, 'Pastoral': Allegro
5. Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28, 'Pastoral': Andante
6. Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28, 'Pastoral': Scherzo & Trio: Allegro vivace
7. Sonata No.15 In D Major, Op.28, 'Pastoral': Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
8. Sonata No.17 In D Minor, Op.31 No.2, 'Tempest': Largo - Allegro
9. Sonata No.17 In D Minor, Op.31 No.2, 'Tempest': Adagio
10. Sonata No.17 In D Minor, Op.31 No.2, 'Tempest': Allegretto
11. Sonata No.22 In F Major, Op.54: In tempo d'un menuetto
12. Allegretto - Piu allegro
Track Listings (10) - Disc #2
1. Sonata No. 21 In C Major, Op. 53: I Allegro con brio
2. Sonata No. 21 In C Major, Op. 53: II Introduzione: Adagio molto
3. Sonata No. 21 In C Major, Op. 53: III Rondo: Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
4. Sonata No. 23 In F Minor Op. 57: I Allegro assai
5. Sonata No. 23 In F Minor Op. 57: II Andante con moto
6. Sonata No. 23 In F Minor Op. 57: III Allegro ma non troppo - Presto
7. Sonata No. 24 In F Sharp Major, Op. 78: I Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
8. Sonata No. 24 In F Sharp Major, Op. 78: II Allegro vivace
9. Sonato No. 32 In C Minor, Op. 111: I Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
10. Sonato No. 32 In C Minor, Op. 111: II Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile

CD Details

All Artists: Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Gulda
Title: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca
Release Date: 3/14/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Romantic (c.1820-1910)
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028944301229

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CD Reviews

Classic Beethoven

John Atherton | CINCINNATI, OHIO United States | 09/09/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Gulda's piano seems to animate itself in a way that might have delighted Toscanini, who praised performances that let him feel he was reading the score.

Yet Gulda was no pedant. Beethoven's warmth remains, but it is the warmth of blood corsing through the music, rather than of some overheated actor.

Gulda's poised but propulsive playing included almost no rubato, instead achieving its expressive effects through exquisite dynamic gradations and weighting of chords.

This is not the only way to play Beethoven. Anton Schindler wrote that it was not Beethoven's way. Gulda forsakes rhetoric. Still there is something tremendously right about these performances, especially those of the "Waldstein" and of Op. 111, which Gulda allows to expand by its own laws into the infinite.

The great German critic Joachim Kaiser ranked Gulda along with Gould as the (troubled) geniuses of their generation. These recordings show you why."