Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 17 21 25 26

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17 21 25 26 Picture

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17 21 25 26 Image

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17 21 25 26 Picture

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17 21 25 26 Photo

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17 21 25 26 Picture

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17 21 25 26 Photo

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
This repertoire suits Pollini well
By Daniel Pi
For those who don’t know Pollini, he is the paragon of “universalism”. He is reliably “very good” at a minimum, and occasionally brilliant. His razor-precise accuracy, consummate rhythmic drive, and tendency toward clarity make him well-suited for nearly anything you put in front of him. In particular, he seems to pay an in incredible amount of care and attention to voicing, and on that particular technical point, he is second to none. He always seems to delineate a clear “melodic” line, without any sort of sentimentalizing or other such nonsense.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
‘The Tempest’ alone is worth the price of this recording.
By A. F. S. Mui
What a lark! I’ve been listening to and playing this piece for more than 40 years. Brendel did a clinically precise performance in his recordng with Philips. But his hasn’t got much poetry or prowess, much as I admire Brendel for his Mozart. His Beethoven simply isn’t quite on par (as is his Schubert) with some other top players in the field.
Kempff’s isn’t that exciting either, but does have in store a fair amount of poetry.
Gillels’ is a big rendition, but Pollini here matches Gillels’ point by point, and exceeds Gillels’ in terms of poetic expression.
If you want to listen to a ‘breakneck’ speed of Beethoven sonatas, go for Friedrich Gulda’s second cycle now available on Brilliant Classics, in which mOST of the pieces were played at very fast pace. Even so, speed has nothing to deter a good interpretation of Beethoven if you are a real virtuoso like Gulda or Pollini. Beethoven’s works CAN be played at great speed without any detraction from the score’s requirements.

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