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Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Vol.3
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN109253
Barcode: 0095115192528
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th October 2016
The qualities that were so impressive in [Bavouzet’s] polished performances of the early sonatas – warm tone, clean keyboard textures, smartly sprung rhythms and, above all, the pervading sense of freshness and enthusiasm – also emerge regularly in these works. Without being too insistently barnstorming, his account of the Appassionata, Op 57, has an irresistible athleticism, while the finales of both Les Adieux, Op 81a, and the A major Sonata Op 101 really do project the energy that courses through the music, without trying too hard to make musical points. 
Here is the concluding instalment – Volume 3 – of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s chronological journey through the 32 Beethoven sonatas, a cycle which may have been matched by one or two but has not been surpassed, I would judge, in the last 30 years. Yes, it’s that good. I greatly enjoyed Volume 2 (3/14) and this is an even higher achievement. But then so is the music. ... Bavouzet, in his prime, has two rare gifts as a Beethoven interpreter. He makes you feel that each sonata is not only all of a piece but that its structure and not just its surface has an audible power. Second, he conveys that what is experienced is indissolubly linked to its execution, both for the composer and for the pianist; the one illuminates the other. 
