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Clementi - The Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67717

Barcode: 0034571177175

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st September 2008

Works

Clementi, Muzio

Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.11 no.1
Piano Sonatas (3), op.9
Piano Sonatas (3), op.10
Piano Sonatas (4), op.12

» no.1 in B flat major

» no.2 in E flat major

» no.3 in F major

» no.4 E flat major

Toccata in B flat major, op.11

Artists

Howard Shelley (piano)

Works

Clementi, Muzio

Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.11 no.1
Piano Sonatas (3), op.9
Piano Sonatas (3), op.10
Piano Sonatas (4), op.12

» no.1 in B flat major

» no.2 in E flat major

» no.3 in F major

» no.4 E flat major

Toccata in B flat major, op.11

Artists

Howard Shelley (piano)

About

This is the second volume in a complete chronological survey of the Clementi sonatas.

After the somewhat frivolous delights of Volume 1, Volume 2 displays Clementi in more serious and weighty form. The selection recorded here, particularly the Op.12 sonatas, is of pieces that aim for depths of expression seldom encountered in the composer’s earlier music.

Muzio Clementi was for much of his long career one of the most famous musicians in Europe. Around the turn of the nineteenth century his public esteem was probably second only to that of Haydn, and, a decade or so later, Beethoven. But unlike the reputations of these other two, Clementi’s fame as a musician rested almost solely upon his exploits, as both player and composer, at a single instrument, the piano. And the vast majority of his compositions are sonatas for that instrument.

This is a fascinating body of work which spans European musical life from Scarlatti to Chopin.