Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 3

Volume 3 of Giovanni Bellucci’s Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas presents the final three discs of his acclaimed 9-CD boxset. This closing chapter captures Beethoven’s late sonatas with remarkable interpretative depth, completing Bellucci’s modern cycle alongside the great traditions of the past.

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Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Artist: Giovanni Bellucci (piano)

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This 9-CD set marks the completion of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas by Giovanni Bellucci. In this video you can hear the last 3-CDs of the entire set.

Now the newly recorded late sonatas are added to the previous two volumes to present a modern cycle, at a super-budget price, to set alongside distinguished pianists of former generations. The recordings have been made in the superb acoustics of the Salle de Musique at La Chaux de Fonds in Switzerland – the source of several previous and notable Beethoven recordings such as Claudio Arrau’s late and magisterial address to most of the sonatas, on Philips.

For this recording, Bellucci himself has acted as recording producer, assisted by sound engineering from Fabio Ferri, and the result is a sonata cycle of remarkable interpretative integrity, tracing in the most vivid terms Beethoven’s evolution as a composer, from 18th-century rebel to 19th-century visionary. In this way the new set joins Bellucci’s recordings of the nine symphonies as transcribed by Liszt, and the piano concertos, as a complete and artistically satisfying portrait of the composer.

This box of sonatas is enhanced by an extensive introduction to the oeuvre by Bellucci, who discusses Beethoven in biographical and spiritual as well as musical terms. ‘What exactly is the momentous decision that must be addressed by anyone wishing to perform Beethoven in the 21ist century?’ asks Bellucci. ‘In my view there can be no neglecting the life-giving flexibility of rhythm, a pliancy that eludes codification. Such flexibility calls for a deep understanding of musical syntax as well as perfect psychophysical coordination’ – and in this regard he places himself in a distinguished interpretative tradition leading back to Artur Schnabel.

The critics have agreed: ‘Bellucci has a way through his approach to rhythm that makes the music inhale and exhale, rise and fall, in a totally natural way… [that] transcended considerations of technical execution, the exquisite tone Bellucci draws from his Model D Steinway, and the exceptionally beautiful recording.,’ (Fanfare)

Tracklist:
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 78:
0:00:00 I. Adagio cantabile – Allegro ma non troppo
0:08:06 II. Allegro vivace

Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79 “Sonatina”:
0:10:54 I. Presto alla tedesca
0:15:51 II. Andante
0:18:36 III. Allegro vivace

Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81° “Les adieux”:
0:20:56 I. Das Lebewohl (Les Adieux). Adagio – Allegro
0:24:53 II. Abwesenheit (L’Absence). Andante espressivo
0:31:48 III. Das Wiedersehen (Le retour). Vivacissimamente

Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90:
0:37:21 I. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
0:44:17 II. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen

Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major. Op. 101:
0:51:41 I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung (Allegretto, ma non troppo)
0:56:38 II. Lebhaft, Marschmäßig (Vivace alla marcia)
1:02:50 III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll (Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto)
1:05:38 IV. Geschwinde, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit (Allegro)

Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 “Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier”:
1:13:23 I. Allegro
1:24:42 II. Scherzo. Assai vivace
1:27:51 III. Adagio sostenuto (Appassionato e con molto sentimento)
1:52:27 IV. Introduzione. Largo –Allegro risoluto (Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze)

Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109:
2:05:02 I. Vivace ma non troppo – Adagio espressivo
2:08:32 II. Prestissimo
2:11:10 III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung (Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo)

Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110:
2:24:16 I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
2:31:24 II. Allegro molto
2:33:37 III. Adagio ma non troppo –Recitativo più adagio – Klagender Gesang (Arioso dolente). Adagio ma non troppo – Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo

Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111:
2:45:51 I. Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato
2:55:20 II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

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