Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles & Piano Sonatas Nos. 31 & 32 / Sudbin
Details
- Composer
- BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
- Artist
- Yevgeny Sudbin
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- BIS
- Released
- Mar 01, 2019
- Catalog #
- BIS-2208
- UPC
- 7318599922089
About
BIS ecopak Yevgeny Sudbin has previously recorded Beethoven’s piano concertos – releases which have received international acclaim, for instance on the website ClassicsToday.com: ‘A Beethoven experience you will not want to miss.’ For his first disc featuring solo works by Beethoven, Sudbin has chosen the two final sonatas and the Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 – late works written between 1821 and 1824, just a couple of years before the composer’s death. There are numerous anecdotes that testify to the fact that Beethoven was highly temperamental. But in his liner notes to this disc, Sudbin writes of another, contrasting side to the composer: ‘warmth, generosity and wisdom – with unexpected outbursts of cheeky humour – are also unmistakably among Beethoven’s qualities and particularly evident in the works on this recording’. If Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the history of music, then the final ones belong to his crowning achievements. Various musicians and musicologists have commented on them, hearing a hard-won triumph of the spirit in the great fugue of the final movement of Op. 110, and interpreting Op. 111 – and especially its second movement, the famous Arietta – as a last farewell. The set of Bagatelles was composed only months after Beethoven had completed his monumental Ninth Symphony. It became the last work for piano to be published in his lifetime, and together the six brief pieces form a distillate of a lifetime of writing for and playing the piano.
Tracklist 11 tracks
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1 I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo 06:08
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
- Duration
- 06:08
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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2 II. Allegro molto 02:05
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Allegro molto
- Duration
- 02:05
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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3 III. Adagio ma non troppo - Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo 09:14
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Adagio ma non troppo - Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo
- Duration
- 09:14
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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4 I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato 09:12
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
- Duration
- 09:12
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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5 II. Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile 17:48
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile
- Duration
- 17:48
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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6 No. 1 in G Major 02:44
- Track
- 6
- Title
- No. 1 in G Major
- Duration
- 02:44
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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7 No. 2 in G Minor 02:28
- Track
- 7
- Title
- No. 2 in G Minor
- Duration
- 02:28
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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8 No. 3 in E-Flat Major 02:30
- Track
- 8
- Title
- No. 3 in E-Flat Major
- Duration
- 02:30
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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9 No. 4 in B Minor 03:44
- Track
- 9
- Title
- No. 4 in B Minor
- Duration
- 03:44
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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10 No. 5 in G Major 01:56
- Track
- 10
- Title
- No. 5 in G Major
- Duration
- 01:56
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin
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11 No. 6 in E-Flat Major 03:53
- Track
- 11
- Title
- No. 6 in E-Flat Major
- Duration
- 03:53
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Yevgeny Sudbin