Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

[Todd]

Andromeda is releasing a near complete set of sonatas by Walter Gieseking (no Op 54 recording was made/survives), but that would require them to mix and match EMI and broadcast recordings (previously on Tahra).  I might bite, if the mix is right.






Eric Le Sage also has an LvB disc coming out.  I wasn't wowed by his Schumann, but maybe.

[Madiel]

Andromeda is releasing a near complete set of sonatas by Walter Gieseking (no Op 54 recording was made/survives), but that would require them to mix and match EMI and broadcast recordings (previously on Tahra).  I might bite, if the mix is right.

Dare I point out, they are clearly misusing the word "All" here.

[amw]

Dare I point out, they are clearly misusing the word "All" here.

I know! Where is WoO 47? And the Andante favori?!

[kishnevi]

Dare I point out, they are clearly misusing the word "All" here.

Not at all.
All the music is by Beethoven.  No sonatas by Mozart, Chopin, Scriabin, etc.   

[Karl Henning]

(* chortle *)

[Todd]

Dare I point out, they are clearly misusing the word "All" here.

Yes, Andromeda is misusing the word "all".  Since Mr Gieseking has been dead for decades, I won't hold it against him.

[Ken B]

Dare I point out, they are clearly misusing the word "All" here.

"Plays only piano sonatas by Beethoven" doesn't have that marketing oomph.

[Mandryka]

There's some completely wild Beethoven by Anny Fischer just on symphonyshare, a concert in Hungary from 1954 with, amongst other things, op 2/3 and op 10/2. Well worth hearing.

[Fred]

HEIDSIECK BARGAINS

Was just over at HMV Japan and bought 8 Heidsieck King Records releases (including three or four beethoven taped in japan) for 1000 yen each.  Release dated is 8 October!!!
Have just been listening to his mozart sonatas. Luminous.

[André]

Heidsieck's complete LvB sonatas is on a cheap 50 disc EMI box. Priceless.

[Fred]

Heidsieck is so good it's easy to miss how good he is.

[Todd]

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[asin]B00MUUPELI[/asin]


Timothy Ehlen's next volume it out later this month.  Looks like he jumped on the daft theme band wagon.

[Mookalafalas]

Timothy Ehlen's next volume it out later this month.  Looks like he jumped on the daft theme band wagon.

Heaven Sent Taboos? Surely that won't appear on the sleeve...it would be hard to think of a more randomly pointless thing to say. 

[Fred]

Sony is issuing a volume-by-volume sonata cycle by Yu Kosuge.  Three twofers with twenty sonatas are currently out, and they appear to be coming out each year, so a 2016 end date seems probable, with a box probably to follow, most likely in time for 2020.  The sets are themed!  Anyway, the cycle appears meant for the Japanese market, but Amazon US also lists them, along with some other core rep.

Just bought the first twofer and played my big litmus test (last movement of op31.3).  Despite the presto marking, she takes an incredibly leisurely 5.24.  Now I'm depressed. I don't think I can go on.

[Fred]

Just bought the first twofer and played my big litmus test (last movement of op31.3).  Despite the presto marking, she takes an incredibly leisurely 5.24.  Now I'm depressed. I don't think I can go on.

[Todd]

HMV Japan lists Pollini playing Opp 31 and 49, slated for release in November, on the same day that the complete cycle comes out.  Only problem is that it is an SHM-CD and costs a little less than half what the box does.  Perhaps a regular CD will be made available.  I also wonder if the inclusion of 31/2 may be an error, since he already recorded it, or if this means he rerecorded it.

[Wanderer]

I also wonder if the inclusion of 31/2 may be an error, since he already recorded it, or if this means he rerecorded it.

Or maybe they just used the old recording.

[Brian]

Or maybe they just used the old recording.

BIS is getting really lazy about this. They "finished" their Shosty symphony cycle with a new recording coupled to an old one; they just did a Vanska/Lahti Sibelius album that had been half-released already; and next month they are reissuing the Singapore SO's (surprisingly interesting) Debussy La mer with new couplings.

[Todd]

Or maybe they just used the old recording.

Maybe, but that would be out of character for the Pollini releases.

[Brian]

Reissued for the needy!



The Hungaroton cycle is back, this November.