Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas

Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Goode - Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas

Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas
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Artist: Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Goode
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-10-05
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Allegro
  2. Adagio
  3. Menuetto: Allegretto
  4. Prestissimo
  5. Allegro vivace
  6. Largo appassionato
  7. Scherzo: Allegretto
  8. Rondo: Grazioso
  9. Allegro con brio
  10. Adagio
  11. Scherzo: Allegro
  12. Allegro assai
Music CD 2
  1. Allegro molto e con brio
  2. Adagio molto
  3. Finale: Prestissimo
  4. Allegro
  5. Allegretto
  6. Presto
  7. Presto
  8. Largo e mesto
  9. Menuetto: Allegro
  10. Rondo: Allegro
Music CD 3
  1. Allegro molto e con brio
  2. Largo, con gran espressione
  3. Allegro
  4. Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso
  5. Allegro
  6. Allegretto
  7. Rondo: Allegro comodo
  8. Grave; Allegro molto e con brio
  9. Adagio cantabile
  10. Rondo: Allegro
Music CD 4
  1. Allegro
  2. Andante
  3. Scherzo: Allegro assai
  4. Allegro con brio
  5. Adagio con molto espressione
  6. Menuetto
  7. Rondo: Allegretto
  8. Andante con Variazioni
  9. Scherzo: Allegro molto
  10. Marcia funbre (Sulla morte d'un Eroe)
  11. Allegro
Music CD 5
  1. Andante; Allegro; Andante
  2. Allegro molto vivace
  3. Adagio con espressione
  4. Allegro vivace
  5. Adagio sostenuto
  6. Allegretto
  7. Presto agitato
  8. Allegro
  9. Andante
  10. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
  11. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
Music CD 6
  1. Allegro vivace
  2. Adagio grazioso
  3. Rondo: Allegretto
  4. Largo; Allegro
  5. Adagio
  6. Allegretto
  7. Allegro
  8. Scherzo: Allegretto vivace
  9. Menuetto: Moderato e grazioso
  10. Presto con fuoco
Music CD 7
  1. Allegro con brio
  2. Introduzione: Adagio molto
  3. Rondo: Allegretto moderato
  4. In tempo d'un Menuetto
  5. Allegretto
  6. Allegro assai
  7. Andante con moto
  8. Allegro non troppo
Music CD 8
  1. Andante
  2. Rondo: Allegro
  3. Allegro ma non troppo
  4. Tempo di Menuetto
  5. Adagio cantabile; Allegro ma non troppo
  6. Allegro vivace
  7. Presto alla tedesca
  8. Andante
  9. Vivace
  10. Adagio: Allegro (Les Adieux)
  11. Andante espressivo (L'Absence)
  12. Vivacissimamente (Le Retour)
  13. Mit lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck (Vivaciously and with feeling and expres
  14. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen (not too quickly and very songfully)
Music CD 9
  1. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfingung (Somewhat lively and with deepest feeling)
  2. Lebhaft. Marschmassig (Lively. March tempo)
  3. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll; Zeitmass des ersten Stuckes; Geschwinde, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit En
  4. Allegro
  5. Scherzo: Assai vivace
  6. Adagio sostenuto
  7. Largo; Fuga; Allegro risoluto
Music CD 10
  1. Vivace ma non troppo; Adagio espressivo
  2. Prestissimo
  3. Tema: Molto cantabile ed espressivo; Variazioni 1-4
  4. Moderato cantabile, molto espressivo
  5. Allegro molto
  6. Adagio ma non troppo; Arioso dolente; Fuga; Allegro ma non troppo; L'istesso tempo di Arioso; L'inv
  7. Maestoso; Allegro con brio ed appassionato
  8. Arietta; Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

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Free Music Review: Goode loses interest, and so did I.
Hit: 3 Stars

This was the first classical CD set that I ever sold on Amazon. Years ago, when the set was first released, there was all this breathless reverence for Mr. Goode's genius, and I started to get excited, too. I had many individual recordings of Beethoven sonatas, from Rosen, Pollini, Gilels, Solomon, Kempff, and so on, but no complete set at that point. When I took home the set and unwrapped it, I started from Sonata #1 and was duly impressed--Goode plays the early sonatas as great compositions in their own right. The problem is that as Beethoven matures and becomes ever more interesting as a composer, Goode becomes progressively less interesting. Somehow the eccentricity, grandeur, and mysticism of Beethoven's late sontatas elude him. The box set became a musical albatross around my neck, so I had to dump it.

If you're going to buy a complete set of Beethoven's sonatas, I recommend you fork over the extra money to get Alfred Brendel's 1996 cycle on Philips. It has fine modern sound, no shortage of wit and passion despite what some critics say, a full grasp of Beethoven's artistic development across his career, and a live concert recording of the Hammerklavier that towers over anything else I have heard. The Adagio Sostenuto movement of that sonata is one of the most profoundly moving pieces that Beethoven ever composed, and Brendel fully plumbs its depths without making it glacially slow--a common miscalculation made by other pianists, even great ones.

If you don't mind mono sound, the Schnabel set is also a must. Ultimately, you'll want to get MULTIPLE recordings of the individual sonatas by different performers. I swear you'll never get tired of hearing even the most popular warhorse sonatas. But when there's such a wealth of GREAT recordings out there, why settle for merely Goode?
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Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas Poster

It's interesting that the great Beethoven sonata cycles are seldom the ones by the big-name virtuosos. Horowitz never attempted one. Neither did Rubinstein. Ashkenazy recorded them all, but with only partial success. Richter never managed all 32 works at one time, and Gilels died before completing his cycle. The most successful complete recordings--Schnabel, Kempff, Arrau, and Backhaus--are all by pianists with a solidly intellectual mindset, however powerful their technique. Goode joins this select company, turning in performances of uncompromising integrity and musical strength. Of course, his reputation as a musician's musician precedes him: here is a player sensitive to Beethoven's every nuance, presenting the composers thoughts with exemplary clarity and taste. This is the the Beethoven cycle for the '90s. --David Hurwitz

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