Beethoven : Complete Piano Sonatas
Igor Levit
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Pianist Igor Levit came on the scene with an album devoted to Beethoven's late piano sonatas, works normally not undertaken until a player has had some experience. As if that were not enough, he released a three-CD set featuring Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, and Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated: three giant and challenging variation sets. Seemingly determined to outdo himself, he returned in 2019 with a complete set of Beethoven's sonatas. The four late ones, which made a critical splash, are included here (as played in 2013, not in new versions), and the rest follow somewhat in the pattern you might expect from the earlier album. Levit has said that he admires Artur Schnabel's Beethoven recordings from the 1930s, and indeed he has some of the same go-like-the-wind quality. His combination of fast tempi and graceful phrase shaping works well in many of the early sonatas, although in the Op. 10 set his tempos leave him little room for the marked Presto in the first movement of Op. 10, No. 3. His slow movements are a mixed bag, with the Adagio of the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"), lacking the evocative moods of some of the others. The first movement of the Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata"), takes the forward sweep too far as the important short-short-short-long motif is reduced to decoration. Levit is never less than carefully considered in his phrasing, though, and many movements have a wonderful liveliness. Sample the joyous finale of the Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101, the first adumbration of the almost mystical quality of the late Beethoven. The late sonatas are worth revisiting, especially the masterfully clear Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), and the Piano Sonata No. 31 in A major, Op. 110. The collection may be brash in many ways, but it lives up to its ambitions and demands attention.
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Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 2
Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 7 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10, No. 2 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 3
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14, No. 2 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 4
Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat Major, Op. 26 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, "Quasi una Fantasia" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Igor Levit, Piano, MainArtist - Andreas Neubronner, Producer, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
Album Description
Pianist Igor Levit came on the scene with an album devoted to Beethoven's late piano sonatas, works normally not undertaken until a player has had some experience. As if that were not enough, he released a three-CD set featuring Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, and Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated: three giant and challenging variation sets. Seemingly determined to outdo himself, he returned in 2019 with a complete set of Beethoven's sonatas. The four late ones, which made a critical splash, are included here (as played in 2013, not in new versions), and the rest follow somewhat in the pattern you might expect from the earlier album. Levit has said that he admires Artur Schnabel's Beethoven recordings from the 1930s, and indeed he has some of the same go-like-the-wind quality. His combination of fast tempi and graceful phrase shaping works well in many of the early sonatas, although in the Op. 10 set his tempos leave him little room for the marked Presto in the first movement of Op. 10, No. 3. His slow movements are a mixed bag, with the Adagio of the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"), lacking the evocative moods of some of the others. The first movement of the Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata"), takes the forward sweep too far as the important short-short-short-long motif is reduced to decoration. Levit is never less than carefully considered in his phrasing, though, and many movements have a wonderful liveliness. Sample the joyous finale of the Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101, the first adumbration of the almost mystical quality of the late Beethoven. The late sonatas are worth revisiting, especially the masterfully clear Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), and the Piano Sonata No. 31 in A major, Op. 110. The collection may be brash in many ways, but it lives up to its ambitions and demands attention.
© TiVo
About the album
- 9 disc(s) - 102 track(s)
- Total length: 10:05:05
- Main artists: Igor Levit
- Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
- Label: Sony Classical
- Area: Allemagne
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Romantic Music
- Instrument: Piano
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24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo
(P) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment/(P) 2019 Sony Music Entertainment
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