A BEETHOVEN TRILOGY

 

Last Piano Sonata Sonata in E major, Op.100

Sonata in A-flat Major, Op.110

Sonata in c minor, Op.111

 

Victor Rosenbaum - piano

 

Written between 1820 and 1822 at a time when Beethoven was suffering from a variety of maladies including nearly total deafness, each of these three sonatas stands alone as a great artistic achievement.

 

Heard together in Victor Rosenbaum's magisterial performances, these works remind us of what vast new territories of the imagination Beethoven explored. Pianist Victor Rosenbaum became a member of the piano faculty at the New England Conservatory in 1967, and went on to head both the piano and chamber music departments at NEC.

 

In this recording, made in Boston's acoustically superb Jordan Hall, Rosenbaum plays Beethoven's final three sonatas in powerfully insightful readings.

 

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