Composed: 1804Genres:
Instrumental » Piano Solos » Piano Sonatas
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54, was written in 1804. It is contemporary to the first sketches of the Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. It is one of Beethoven's lesser known sonatas, overshadowed by its widely known neighbours, the Waldstein and the Appassionata.
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What you will get is a new sense of the sheer physicality of the music…What’s fascinating about Levit’s whole cycle is the crazy tempos at which he takes the first Allegros and Prestos…Where... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019, Classical Album of the Year
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Best-Seller of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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Building a Library, February 2023, Also Recommended - ‘Appassionata’
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Building A Library, March 2026, Top Choice (Waldstein Sonata)
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Hewitt likes to guide her listener, demonstrating this point and that, which can distract… As you might expect, her way with the fingery textures of the first movement [of the Waldstein] is... —
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As always, Paul Lewis offers playing of rare insight and intelligence. He is just as much at home in the dazzling brilliance of the C major Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3...as in the graceful lyricism... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended Recording - 'Appassionata'
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With Williams…expressiveness is all. He paradoxically achieves this through emotional restraint, and in a style which you might call ‘plain’, but which allows the individual character of each... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Recording of the Month
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Lortie seems less interested in metaphysical profundity than in textural stylishness; spending enough time with this set to grasp Lortie's aims and insights is nevertheless genuinely rewarding —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Instrumental
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Wilhelm Kempff was the most inspirational of Beethoven pianists. Those who have cherished his earlier stereo cycle for its magical spontaneity will find Kempff's qualities even more intensely... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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