Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

Biss, Jonathan

ORC 100117

Jonathan Biss has deepened his long relationship with Beethoven’s piano sonatas over the past nine years with a landmark recording project. His nine-disc survey of the Complete Piano Sonatas, released by Orchid Classics to mark the composer’s 250th anniversary year, documents the evolution of Biss’s Beethoven. The American pianist’s personal explorations of these extraordinary works reflects insights gained through countless hours devoted to understanding one of the greatest monuments of western classical music.

Works:

• Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-32
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 No. 2
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 7
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14 No. 1
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14 No. 2
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 'Quasi una fantasia'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest' Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 'The Hunt'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

CD x 9

Orchid Classics

2020-03-02

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