Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Release Date: 4th Nov 2022
Catalogue No: AVI8553493
Label: Avi Music
Length: 59 minutes

In stock

Usually despatched within 1 working day

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'

Work length24:31

$4.40

Album only

Daniel Heide (piano)
Recorded: 2021-02
Recording Venue: Schloss Ettersburg, Weimar

I. Allegro

Track length10:08

$1.10

Album only

II. Andante

Track length6:35

$1.10

Album only

III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)

Track length2:15

$1.10

Album only

IV. Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo)

Track length5:33

$1.10

Album only

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'

Work length15:14

$3.30

Album only

Daniel Heide (piano)
Recorded: 2021-02
Recording Venue: Schloss Ettersburg, Weimar

I. Adagio sostenuto

Track length5:20

$1.10

Album only

II. Allegretto

Track length2:14

$1.10

Album only

III. Presto agitato

Track length7:40

$1.10

Album only

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre'

Work length19:53

$9.90

Album only

Daniel Heide (piano)
Recorded: 2021-02
Recording Venue: Schloss Ettersburg, Weimar

I. Andante con variazioni

Track length1:17

$1.10

Album only

Variation 1

Track length1:12

$1.10

Album only

Variation 2

Track length0:54

$1.10

Album only

Variation 3

Track length1:21

$1.10

Album only

Variation 4

Track length0:53

$1.10

Album only

Variation 5

Track length1:46

$1.10

Album only

II. Scherzo (Allegro molto)

Track length3:11

$1.10

Album only

III. Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe (Maestoso andante)

Track length6:00

$1.10

Album only

IV. Allegro

Track length3:19

$1.10

Album only

About
Explore

About

Daniel Heide releases the second volume in his survey of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas including the ever popular 'Pastorale' and 'Moonlight' sonatas.

When I first heard Beethoven's Sonata No. 15 in D Major, op. 28, the "Pastoral", it immediately conquered my heart. The swaying, deeply resounding, velvety bass notes and the tender theme in the right hand continue to produce a melodious sense of well-being in me to this day. A series of slow, melodious arches alternating with incisive, characteristic insertions create the general mood in the first movement.

Then the entire second movement is pervaded by a relentless staccato figure in the left hand: these tranquil sixteenth notes, with their metronomical precision, provide a guiding framework for the right hand's dignified theme. In the middle section, we are surprised by the onset of a harlequinesque alternation between dotted chords and whimsical triplets in the right hand, which lasts until the initial main theme and its accurately pulsating left-hand accompaniment call everyone back to order. In the last section, Beethoven accelerates the theme to thirty-second note runs leading to a culmination before the music suddenly becomes quiet and the movement fades out in tranquil transcendence.

In the scherzo we are confronted with an accurate, reactive joy of music-making combined with an outgoing sense of humor, and the same variety of pulsating playing pleasure is likewise prolonged throughout the last movement. This is not a furious finale, but a mischievous, swaying Rundgesang (stanza-and-refrain) with an affectionate rondo theme that returns again and again. A breakneck coda in Presto time allows the soloist to conclude this grand sonata with bravura. I still well remember my admission exam for the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1996. My programme included Beethoven's "Pastoral" sonata; the jury allowed me to play portions of all movements, and I was admitted!

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue