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BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 and 21 (Moiseiwitsch, Vol. 9) (1927-1950) |
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Composer: |
Carl Tausig, Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Idil Biret, Jeno Jando, Peter Nagy, Alexander Paley, Balazs Szokolay, Claudio Arrau, Walter Gieseking, Wilhelm Backhaus, Artur Schnabel, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Rudolf Serkin, Solomon, Ignaz Friedman, Alfred Brendel, Roland Pontinen, Yukie Nagai, Eugene Mursky, Elly Ney, Gerhard Oppitz, Rolf Lindblom, Shura Cherkassky, Ginette Doyen, Annie Fischer, Emil Gilels, Jorg Demus, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Michael Korstick, Michael Endres, Dieter Zechlin, Davide Cabassi, Paul Lewis, Alejandro Pico-Leonis |
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Catalogue No.: |
8.111115 |
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CD |
Barcode: |
747313311521 |
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Born in Odessa, ‘the cradle of Russian pianism’ in 1890, Benno Moiseiwitsch was one of the great pianists of the twentieth century. Volume 9 of the Naxos Moiseiwitsch Edition features a superlative reading of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, of which the critic of The Gramophone wrote: ‘Moiseiwitsch has surely never made such a good recording as this’. The 1941 recording of the ‘Pathétique’ Sonata is also exceptionally fine, with Moiseiwitsch’s full tone at the beginning faithfully captured by the engineers. The tempo of the Allegro di molto e con brio is urgent and fast, while the pianist’s sublime tonal qualities can be heard to full advantage in the Adagio.
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