Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Giovanni Bellucci

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 18, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
    • PERFORMER
      Giovanni Bellucci
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 18, 2020
    • UPC
      5028421951317
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95131
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    2. II. Adagio con molta espressione

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    3. III. Minuetto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    4. IV. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    5. I. Andante con variazioni

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    6. II. Scherzo: Allegro molto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    7. III. Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un eroe

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    8. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    9. I. Andante

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    10. II. Allegro molto e vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    11. III. Adagio con espressione

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    12. IV. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    13. I. Adagio sostenuto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    14. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    15. III. Presto agitato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    16. I. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    17. II. Adagio grazioso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    18. III. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    19. I. Largo - Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    20. II. Adagio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    21. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    22. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    23. II. Scherzo: Allegretto vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    24. III. Menuetto: Moderato e grazioso - Trio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    25. IV. Presto con fuoco

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    26. I. In tempo d'un menuetto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    27. II. Allegretto - Più allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    28. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    29. II. Andante

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    30. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    31. IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    32. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    33. II. Introduzione: Adagio molto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    34. III. Rondo: Allegretto moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    35. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    36. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci

    37. III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Giovanni Bellucci


The second volume of Giovanni Bellucci’s Beethoven cycle for Brilliant Classics takes the listener on a journey of six eventful years, from Op.22 of 1800 to the ‘Appassionata’ Sonata of 1806. During that time Beethoven established himself as Vienna’s pre-eminent pianist-composer. He came to regard Op.22 as the best of his ‘early’ sonatas but a sea-change in the deepening of his expression is already evident in the piano-writing of Op.26, with its funeral march ‘in memory of a hero’. There follow the remarkable formal innovations of the Op.27 pair – No.2 immortally inscribed on the popular imagination as the ‘Moonlight’ – and then the smooth, undulating rhythms of the ‘Pastorale’ Op.28. The trio of Op.31 sonatas present a study in contrasts, from the graceful profile of No.1 in G major to the sound and fury of the ‘Tempest’ No.2 and then the hectic momentum of No.3, presaging the concision of works at the end of his ‘middle’ period such as the ‘Serioso’ Quartet and the Eighth Symphony. The proportions of the two-movement Op.54 are even more tautly circumscribed, before the reach of Beethoven’s expressive range for his instrument expands to hitherto undreamt heights in the ‘Waldstein’ Op.53 and the ‘Appassionata’ Op.57. Giovanni Bellucci is among the most strikingly individual of modern pianists. Described by Italian critic Piero Rattalino as ‘a force of nature, vast and palpitating’, he cultivates an old-fashioned richness of piano timbre while still attending to the letter as well as the spirit of Beethoven’s scores. According to Le Monde, ‘he takes us back to the Golden Age of the Piano’. His recordings have been showered with prizes such as Diapason d’Or, Choc, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, CD Maestro etc.