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Beethoven: Favourite Piano Sonatas / Vladimir Ashkenazy

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Performer) Format: Audio CD
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.14 In C Sharp Minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight" - 1. Adagio sostenuto
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight" - 2. Allegretto
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight" - 3. Presto
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat, Op.81a -"Les adieux" - 1. Das Lebewohl (Adagio - Allegro)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat, Op.81a -"Les adieux" - 2. Abwesendheit (Andante espressivo)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat, Op.81a -"Les adieux" - 3. Das Wiedersehn (Vivacissimamente)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31 No.2 -"Tempest" - 1. Largo - Allegro
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31 No.2 -"Tempest" - 2. Adagio
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 -"Pathétique" - 1. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 -"Pathétique" - 2. Adagio cantabile
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 -"Pathétique" - 3. Rondo (Allegro)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 -"Appassionata" - 1. Allegro assai
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 -"Appassionata" - 2. Andante con moto
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 -"Appassionata" - 3. Allegro ma non troppo
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.15 in D, Op.28 -"Pastorale" - 1. Allegro
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.15 in D, Op.28 -"Pastorale" - 3. Scherzo (Allegro assai)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.15 in D, Op.28 -"Pastorale" - 4. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 -"Waldstein" - 1. Allegro con brio
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 -"Waldstein" - 2. Introduzione (Adagio molto)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 -"Waldstein" - 3. Rondo (Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo)
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Product Details

  • Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Audio CD (August 26, 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Decca
  • ASIN: B0000041LE
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsUnexceptionable Beethoven, and that's not faint praise
By klavierspiel VINE VOICE on February 17, 2005
Format: Audio CD
Vladimir Ashkenazy by now has become an elder statesman of classical piano playing. This two-CD set presents his 1970s recordings of seven of the most familiar Beethoven piano sonatas. The performances are technically impeccable and solidly mainstream in their interpretive bent--no weirdnesses or surprises here. This is not to say there isn't plenty of interest and beauty--Ashkenazy's rendition of the hackneyed first movement of the "Moonlight" Sonata, for example, is masterly in its tonal control, while the stormy finale works up quite a head of steam without ever becoming messy or headlong. Similarly, the pianist handles passages in the "Les Adieux" Sonata that most pianists stumble on or muddle through with enviable clarity, if with not quite as much sheer joy in the finale. The same sureness of technique and taste marks all of these performances, and there's certainly nothing wrong with consistency. If it's a little churlish to wish for a bit more excitement, even hysteria in places like the coda to the first movement of the Appassionata, then I'll admit to being a churl. Nevertheless, this is a recording I'd give to piano students to let them hear how Beethoven should be played. The remastered sound is clear but a bit percussive at the loud end of the dynamic spectrum.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAshkenazy has 'done his reading'
By A Customer on September 30, 2003
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Beethoven was a dynamic man who never failed to hold back his
volatile temperament. He was not even tempered with even his
closest associates,relatives and music publishers. These facts
are unanimously noted by all the great Beethoven biographers, both past and present. Too not expect Beethoven's temperament
too pervade his music, especially pieces as personal as his
piano sonatas, is to be mistaken. Ashkenazy recognizes and keeps
Beethoven's emotional nature in his playing of these sonatas. Of
course, we dont know EXACTLY how Beethoven would have played these works, but to think he would not have played them in an
emotionally charged manner, with rising and subsiding waves of
emotion would be to misinterpret the composer. I fully expect
to be jolted by loud playing after very soft playing, etc., and
would never expect Beethoven to have played in a consistent dynamic level throughout his pieces. I base this on what we can
read of the great Beethoven in his bigraphies and his own personal notebooks. So, for those of you who are just discovering
Beethoven's music, dont be put off by those reviews that diminish
the importance of individual playing style,temporal niceties and
having to adjust your volume control. Ashkenazy plays the quiet passages quietly, and the charged passages emotionally, just
as Beethoven wrote them. If, afterall, we are looking for consistency of piano technique throughout, we can always listen
to Haydn.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAbsolutely the Best!
By A Customer on December 6, 2003
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I wonder if the people who wrote negative reviews about this CD really understood Beethoven. Have you heard any of his symphonies? Beethoven is about dynamism! Maybe they should stick with Mozart.
Ashkenazy gave a flawless performance. And technically the CD is very well recorded, fully exploiting the dynamic range available on the CD format, very finely mastered.
I consider this a golden classic worth collecting.
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5.0 out of 5 starsmarvelous
By A Customer on May 24, 2001
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This compilation highlights Beethoven's most famous sonatas of his 32 that he composed. I especially like 'Les Adieux.' Ashkenazy is my favorite pianist. He is my favorite because his performances are 99.99% of the time FLAWLESS. His interpretations, in my opinion, are top notch, cannot be beaten. Even though some say that he is a better Chopin or Mozart performer than a Beethoven, I beg to differ. His style, in my opinion, is much more suited to Beethoven, and it shows through in this compilation. This is a must buy for any Beethoven or piano lover.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNothing I have heard comes close to these!
By Marjorie S. Allen on July 9, 2008
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It is simply that something in me was listening for something else through all the other pianists I heard over the years when they played Beethoven. What I heard was this man or that playing Beethoven. What I wanted to hear was Beethoven. When I heard Ashkenazy's Moonlight Sonata, there it was! The pulse- the sound of Beethoven's heartbeat- I don't know how to say it...I immediately bought the set and his Beethoven concertos as well, and have not been disappointed. He has provided me with the direct line...!!!
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood to very good- but only in spots
By scholarboy on September 21, 2012
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Ashkenazy can be very frustrating-he is an enormously skilled pianist, and after all, a high degree of technical virtuosity is demanded by these pieces, pace Schnabel. Still, like Barenboim, you never quite know what you're going to get from sonata to sonata or even, within a work, movement by movement. In analyzing CD 1, the Moonlight is well played, for example, but each of the three movements should have a different emotional world that they convey: here there is a sameness that seems to rob the music of its romantic/classical balance. The first two movements of Les Adieux are pretty much awful; yet Ashkenazy absolutely comes alive in the finale. He continues brilliantly with the opening of the Pastorale, up until the final bars before the recapitulation, then saves it again with some impassioned playing, but dawdles in the second movement, pulling it apart beyond my recognition. The last movement is very well played if a bit rhythmically four-square. Ashkenazy excels in the Pathetique's first movement, which he just lets rip, and a gorgeous adagio-this would have been my favorite performance of this warhorse if not for a somewhat muted and low-key finale. Right now I am listening to the Waldstein which is truly excellent-detailed, rugged in a Beethovian style, played with feeling but in strict tempo. Unfortunately, the Appassionata on the same CD comes off as too pretty-too pianistic. Perhaps Ashkenazy should reconsider some of these interpretations-there's still time, as he's capable of being amongst the elite but only when he's on, which isn't often enough. Let's face it-Ashkenazy is a Romantic at heart-these Classical repertoire pieces just aren't his thing for the most part. No wonder he took up conducting!
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Published 18 days ago by Mitchell McCabe
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Over the years, I've listened to several excellent versions of these masterpieces (Kovacevich, Gulda, Pollini and Gilels come to mind) but still enjoy this set. Read more

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CD met all my expectations .. a wonderful selection of Beethoven Sonatas, performed brilliantly.

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Great selections played by a world class pianist. Never tire of this music.

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3.0 out of 5 starsSolid performance

Good performance but sometimes over dramatic.

Published 18 months ago by E. S. Altman
5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding interpretation- real Beethoven

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