Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1
Composed: 1795–96Genres:
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The Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49, No. 1, and Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49, No. 2, are short sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, published in 1805 . Both works are approximately eight minutes in length, and are split into two movements. These sonatas are referred to as the Leichte Sonaten to be given to his friends and students.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonatas_Nos._19_and_20_(Beethoven)
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended Recording - '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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…appropriately enough this final volume ends with the last sonata triptych of Opp. 109-111. Lewis plays all three works with characteristic warmth and beauty of tone, and you're not likely... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Angela Hewitt’s latest Beethoven recording comes with her customary intelligence and scrupulous attention to detail…her gently trotting minuet (its theme later cropped up in Beethoven’s popular... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Pollini is not a pianist with a sense of humour, but his playing has a trim, classical cut with plenty of vitality, and a blunt, brusque Beethoven also bursts through from time to time. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Pashchenko has an exceptional way with Beethoven. She imbues both little Op. 49 sonatas with a disarming simplicity that can only be borne out of sophistication…[and] her outstanding rendition... —
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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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