“this was one of Beethoven’s last compositions for piano”
Rudolf Serkin - Beethoven Sonata No. 32, Op. 111 - 2nd Movement
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Glenn Gould - Beethoven, Sonata Op. 31 N. 2 - III Allegretto
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Beethoven and sounds (Monthy Python)
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Ludwig van Beethoven, from Sonata No. 32 in C minor, op. 111 (1821-22). Maurizio Pollini, bootleg of a great performance in London, 1973. This is the last half of the Arietta, from the third variation (rest of the Arietta isn’t posted). The first movement is here.
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Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, “Waldstein,” Op. 53
I. Allegro con brio
Alfred Brendel, pianoToday is the 81st birthday of Austrian-British pianist Alfred Brendel. Born 5 January 1931, as a teenager he was forced to dig trenches for the Axis in Yugoslavia. After the war came a happier time, when he spent a couple of years in study at the Graz Conservatory—but otherwise he is an almost entirely self-taught pianist. Brendel specializes in Mozart, Beethoven (whose complete sonatas he has recorded twice), and Schubert, and has a wide-ranging repertoire otherwise including much of Liszt and a number of 20th Century works; indeed, his first record at age 21 was of Prokofiev’s Fifth Concerto. His interpretations are renowned for their clarity, architecture, and balance, though he has occasionally been labeled a “cerebral” pianist, in part because of his tireless fastidious insistence upon adherence to the score. Brendel has been retired from the concert platform since 2008.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major ‘Kreutzer’
Anne-Sophie Mutter - violin, Lambert Orkis - piano
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