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Beethoven - The Late Piano Sonatas | Vox Classics MC122

Beethoven - The Late Piano Sonatas

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Label: Vox Classics

Cat No: MC122

Barcode: 0851950001223

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th October 2007

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"Very stimulating. There's something so committed, so urgently experienced about Serkin's way with the music that even if certain things cause a raised eyebrow you can still shut your eyes and somehow feel the composer "very close........the recording is truthful. The playing has splendid bravura and dash to it and the instrumental sonorities in the great slow movement are revealing and occasionally sublime." (Gramophone)

"Hearing the Hammerklavier Sonata played on a well-restored Graf fortepiano and hearing its first two movements played, very properly, at speed, is an all-too extraordinary experience." (Gramophone)

Musical Concepts is pleased to return to general availability Peter Serkin's provocative, acclaimed recordings of the final six piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven played on a restored Ludwig Graf fortepiano of the same vintage as the music itself. Originally released on the pioneering American independent label Pro Arte as the LP era came to a close, these recordings represented a major deparure for an artist best known for his probing approach to twentieth-century repertoire, with the result a startlingly "new" sound for some of the most challenging landmarks of the piano repertoire.

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