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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

Digital Recordings (1992-1996)

Alfred Brendel (piano)

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
No self-respecting Brendel collection could be without his traversal of the Beethoven sonatas. Always a thinker's pianist, there is plenty to engage the head and some of his ideas are as controversial...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2009

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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

Digital Recordings (1992-1996)

Alfred Brendel (piano)

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No self-respecting Brendel collection could be without his traversal of the Beethoven sonatas. Always a thinker's pianist, there is plenty to engage the head and some of his ideas are as controversial...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2009

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Alfred Brendel's digital cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas now available at budget price. The set has now been rebranded as a DECCA release. Recorded in various locations between 1992 and 1996

Contents and tracklist

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1
Work length17:32
1. Allegro
Track length4:19
2. Adagio
Track length4:41
3. Menuetto (Allegretto)
Track length3:17
4. Prestissimo
Track length5:15
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 No. 2
Work length25:11
1. Allegro vivace
Track length7:41
2. Largo appassionato
Track length6:36
3. Scherzo (Allegretto)
Track length3:33
4. Rondo (Grazioso)
Track length7:21
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3
Work length26:35
1. Allegro con brio
Track length10:24
2. Adagio
Track length7:16
3. Scherzo (Allegro)
Track length3:13
4. Allegro assai
Track length5:42
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 7
Work length30:55
1. Allegro molto e con brio
Track length8:44
2. Largo, con gran espressione
Track length9:02
3. Allegro
Track length5:22
4. Rondo (Poco allegretto e grazioso)
Track length7:47
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'
Work length26:12
1. Allegro
Track length10:48
2. Andante
Track length7:20
3. Scherzo (Allegro assai)
Track length2:24
4. Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo)
Track length5:40
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2
Work length8:20
1. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length4:46
2. Tempo di Menuetto
Track length3:34
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1
Work length19:33
1. Allegro molto e con brio
Track length5:56
2. Adagio molto
Track length9:08
3. Finale (Prestissimo)
Track length4:29
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2
Work length14:30
1. Allegro
Track length5:41
2. Allegretto
Track length4:34
3. Presto
Track length4:15
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3
Work length24:28
1. Presto
Track length7:00
2. Largo e mesto
Track length10:29
3. Menuetto (Allegro)
Track length2:53
4. Rondo (Allegro)
Track length4:06
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'
Work length19:19
1. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
Track length9:21
2. Adagio cantabile
Track length5:13
3. Rondo (Allegro)
Track length4:45
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14 No. 1
Work length13:51
1. Allegro
Track length7:01
2. Allegretto
Track length3:24
3. Rondo. Allegro comodo
Track length3:26
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14 No. 2
Work length16:49
1. Allegro
Track length7:48
2. Andante
Track length5:09
3. Scherzo (Allegro assai)
Track length3:52
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
Work length24:29
1. Allegro con brio
Track length7:41
2. Adagio con molto espressione
Track length6:44
3. Menuetto
Track length3:23
4. Rondo (Allegretto)
Track length6:41
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre'
Work length19:53
1. Andante con variazioni
Track length8:33
2. Scherzo. Allegro molto
Track length2:56
3. Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe
Track length4:56
4. Allegro
Track length3:28
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 'Quasi una fantasia'
Work length15:48
1. Andante - Allegro - Tempo I
Track length4:44
2. Allegro molto e vivace
Track length2:02
3. Adagio con espressione
Track length3:07
4. Allegro vivace - Tempo I - Presto
Track length5:55
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'
Work length15:31
1. Adagio sostenuto
Track length5:43
2. Allegretto
Track length2:17
3. Presto
Track length7:31
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1
Work length8:07
1. Andante
Track length4:14
2. Rondo (Allegro)
Track length3:53
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
Work length24:09
1. Allegro vivace
Track length6:54
2. Adagio grazioso
Track length10:28
3. Rondo. Allegretto
Track length6:47
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Work length24:21
1. Largo - Allegro
Track length8:50
2. Adagio
Track length8:42
3. Allegretto
Track length6:49
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 'The Hunt'
Work length23:13
1. Allegro
Track length8:53
2. Scherzo (Allegretto vivace)
Track length5:07
3. Menuetto (Moderato e grazioso)
Track length3:53
4. Presto con fuoco
Track length5:20
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Work length24:58
1. Allegro con brio
Track length11:20
2. Introduzione (Adagio molto)
Track length3:48
3. Rondo (Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo)
Track length9:50
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
Work length12:32
1. In Tempo d'un Menuetto
Track length5:51
2. Allegretto
Track length6:41
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
Work length21:13
1. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung (Allegretto ma non troppo)
Track length4:08
2. Lebhaft, marschmäßig (Vivace alla marcia)
Track length6:18
3. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll (Adagio ma non troppo, con affetto)
Track length2:46
4. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossen- heit (Allegro)
Track length8:01
Beethoven: Andante Favori in F, WoO 57
Work length9:08
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
Work length9:50
1. Presto alla tedesca
Track length5:04
2. Andante
Track length2:42
3. Vivace
Track length2:04
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
Work length10:34
1. Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
Track length7:35
2. Allegro vivace
Track length2:59
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Work length13:49
1. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
Track length5:46
2. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen
Track length8:03
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'
Work length24:37
1. Allegro assai
Track length9:58
2. Andante con moto
Track length6:10
3. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length8:29
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
Work length44:26
1. Allegro
Track length11:26
2. Scherzo. Assai vivace - Presto - Prestissimo - Tempo I
Track length2:40
3. Adagio sostenuto
Track length17:47
4. Largo - Allegro risoluto
Track length12:33
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
Work length16:39
1. Das Lebewohl. Adagio - Allegro
Track length7:06
2. Abwesendheit. Andante espressivo
Track length3:30
3. Das Wiedersehn. Vivacissimamente
Track length6:03
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Work length18:14
1. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo - Tempo I
Track length3:31
2. Prestissimo
Track length2:33
3. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
Track length12:10
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Work length19:44
1. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
Track length6:56
2. Allegro molto
Track length2:14
3. Adagio ma non troppo - Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length3:25
4. Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length7:09
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Work length27:40
1. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Track length9:22
2. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
Track length18:18

Awards and reviews

January 2009

No self-respecting Brendel collection could be without his traversal of the Beethoven sonatas. Always a thinker's pianist, there is plenty to engage the head and some of his ideas are as controversial as they are unique.
Vital listening, though, whatever your position.

Brendel allow[s] Beethoven’s notes to speak for themselves, perhaps imposing less personality and interpretation on the music, but allowing the depth of Beethoven’s experience to be channelled through his own...the stimulating energy in [the Hammerklavier], Brendel’s farewell to this work, is electric
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