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- Date Released: April 7, 2008
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Keyboard, Classical
- Label: harmonia mundi / IODA
The English pianist completes his arresting four-year traversal of the Beethoven sonatas.
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We Say...
This three-disc set is the latest volume of English pianist Paul Lewis's traversal of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, the fourth in a series launched in 2005. Lewis's playing, especially in the early sonatas, stands out for his mellow, silky tone and his mercurial way with the music's many sudden contrasts, which he points up without exaggeration or arbitrariness. These two characteristics work beautifully in tandem; your ear is seduced before it's startled, and his readings of the Op. 10 sonatas are full of elegant, Haydnesque shocks. Lewis's tone makes the lyrical, fresh-air opening movement of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Sonata as lovely as can be, and the two "easy" Op. 49 sonatas aren't taken for granted, but given charm and significance. In his last three sonatas, a sort of valedictory trilogy, Beethoven turned twice to the theme-and-variations form. If in Op. 109 Lewis's slow variations are a bit up-tempo for my taste, that's only because I never want them to end. In the variations in Op. 111, Beethoven subdivides a slow, steady beat into smaller and smaller divisions over the course of 18 minutes; as the music finally dissolves into celestial trills and murmurings, the microscope becomes a telescope gazing out at other worlds. Lewis's playing of this enormously difficult movement arrestingly captures this inward/outward sense, appropriately capping his four-year musical journey.
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Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: I. Allegro molto e con brio
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5:58 |
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Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: II. Adagio molto
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9:25 |
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Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: III. Finale. Prestissimo
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4:32 |
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Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2: I. Allegro
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5:38 |
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Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2: II. Allegretto
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4:37 |
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Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2: III. Finale. Presto
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4:05 |
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Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3: I. Presto
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6:57 |
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Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3: II. Largo e mesto
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11:04 |
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Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3: III. Menuetto. Allegro
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3:04 |
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Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3: IV. Rondo. Allegro
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4:10 |
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10 Total Tracks, 59:30 Total Length
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Sonata No. 15 "Pastorale" in D major, Op. 28: I. Allegro
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10:48 |
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Sonata No. 15 "Pastorale" in D major, Op. 28: II. Andante
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7:15 |
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Sonata No. 15 "Pastorale" in D major, Op. 28: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
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2:33 |
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Sonata No. 15 "Pastorale" in D major, Op. 28: IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
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5:46 |
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Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: I. Andante
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4:45 |
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Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1: II. Rondo. Allegro
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3:46 |
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Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo
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4:55 |
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Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2: II. Tempo di minuetto
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3:41 |
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Sonata No. 26 "Lebewohl" in E flat major, Op. 81a: I. Adagio - Allegro ("Les Adieux")
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7:24 |
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Sonata No. 26 "Lebewohl" in E flat major, Op. 81a: II. Andante espressivo ("L'Absence")
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3:39 |
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Sonata No. 26 "Lebewohl" in E flat major, Op. 81a: III. Vivacissimamente ("Le Retour")
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5:58 |
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11 Total Tracks, 60:30 Total Length
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Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109: I. Vivace ma non troppo / Adagio espressivo
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3:30 |
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Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109: II. Prestissimo
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2:32 |
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Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109: III. Andante. Gesangvoll mit innigster Empfindung, mezza voce
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12:03 |
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Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
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6:36 |
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Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto
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2:11 |
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Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110: III. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro ma non troppo (Fuga)
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10:23 |
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Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
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8:53 |
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Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111: II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
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18:05 |
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08 Total Tracks, 64:13 Total Length
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