LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5

 

Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1

Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 (‘Der Sturm’)

Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3

 

Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

 

“The playing is riveting. Brautigam draws out the Pathetique sonata's first-movement introduction with plenty of rhetorical emphasis yet keeps the dotted rhythms in sharp focus. … I'm also struck how the fortepiano's buzzing timbre imparts a driving, almost rock-and-roll quality to the left hand's broken octaves. Surely Beethoven would have understood, and approved!” Classics Today on Vol. 1 (BISSACD1362)

 

BIS SACD BISSACD1572