There's some dazzling pianism on display here, but also a rare sensibility that enables Nelson Freire to plumb the depths of Beethoven's slow movements without ever sentimentalising them.

BBC Music Magazine, Proms 20074 out of 5 stars

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Beethoven - Piano Sonatas

Nelson Freire (piano)

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There's some dazzling pianism on display here, but also a rare sensibility that enables Nelson Freire to plumb the depths of Beethoven's slow movements without ever sentimentalising them.

BBC Music Magazine, Proms 20074 out of 5 stars

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Release date: 14th May 2007
Label: Decca
Catalogue number: E4758155
Length: 69 minutes
Genre:
- Piano Sonatas

Contents and tracklist

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'

Work length22:27

Nelson Freire (piano), Ian Watson (videoscripteditor)
Recorded: 2006-04-28
Recording Venue: Salle De Musique, La Chaux-De-Fonds

I. Allegro con brio

Track length9:29

II. Introduzione. Adagio molto

Track length3:47

III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato – Prestissimo

Track length9:11

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'

Work length14:59

Nelson Freire (piano), Ian Watson (videoscripteditor)
Recorded: 2006-04-28
Recording Venue: Salle De Musique, La Chaux-De-Fonds

I. Das Lebewohl. Adagio – Allegro

Track length6:26

II. Abwesenheit. Andante espressivo –

Track length3:22

III. Das Wiedersehen. Vivacissimamente

Track length5:11

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110

Work length18:33

Nelson Freire (piano), Ian Watson (videoscripteditor)
Recorded: 2006-04-28
Recording Venue: Salle De Musique, La Chaux-De-Fonds

I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo

Track length6:15

II. Allegro molto

Track length2:00

IIIa. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length3:19

IIIb. Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length6:59

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

Work length13:04

Nelson Freire (piano), Ian Watson (videoscripteditor)
Recorded: 2006-04-28
Recording Venue: Salle De Musique, La Chaux-De-Fonds

I. Adagio sostenuto

Track length5:26

II. Allegretto

Track length2:12

III. Presto agitato

Track length5:26

Awards and reviews

Proms 2007

There's some dazzling pianism on display here, but also a rare sensibility that enables Nelson Freire to plumb the depths of Beethoven's slow movements without ever sentimentalising them.

September 2007

What's not to admire about Nelson Freire's brilliantly virtuoso, heartfelt and utterly alive Beethoven interpretations? They're pianistically oriented in terms of tone colour and symmetry, yet never feel the least bit four-square, and convey vivid communicative immediacy.

indisputably one of the greatest living pianists

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