Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3

Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 2

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Piano Sonata No. 1 F Minor op. 2,1 Allegro	05:06
1.2	Piano Sonata No. 1 F Minor op. 2,1 Adagio	05:33
1.3	Piano Sonata No. 1 F Minor op. 2,1 Menuetto: Allegro	03:36
1.4	Piano Sonata No. 1 F Minor op. 2,1 Prestissimo	06:49
1.5	Piano Sonata No. 2 A Major op. 2,2 Allegro vivace	06:57
1.6	Piano Sonata No. 2 A Major op. 2,2 Largo appassionato	06:54
1.7	Piano Sonata No. 2 A Major op. 2,2 Scherzo: Allegretto	03:28
1.8	Piano Sonata No. 2 A Major op. 2,2 Rondo: Grazioso	06:41
1.9	Piano Sonata No. 3 C Major op. 2,3 Allegro con brio	10:18
1.10	Piano Sonata No. 3 C Major op. 2,3 Adagio	08:05
1.11	Piano Sonata No. 3 C Major op. 2,3 Scherzo: Allegro	03:08
1.12	Piano Sonata No. 3 C Major op. 2,3 Allegro assai	05:12

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14,95 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
original title:: Beethoven Klaviersonaten Nr. 1, 2, 3
series:: Ludwig van Beethoven Klavier Sonaten
Art.-No.:: 098.202.000
: Compact Disc
: 8 S. Booklet
Duration:: 1:11 hrs.
: February 2006
: *recommended retail price

hänssler CLASSIC proudly presents the second volume in the Beethoven Sonata cycle, performed by Gerhard Oppitz. Throughout his distinguished career, Oppitz has established his deep understanding of Beethoven’s idiom and now brings a lifetime of experience to commit these works to disc. The current disc features the three piano sonatas op. 2, published in 1794. Beethoven dedicated these three works to his revered teacher Joseph Haydn, who was impressed with Beethoven’s early accomplishments. Here we see an important link to Beethoven’s temperament and social self-image, in whose life the most energetic perspectives were sympathetic to revolutionary views. The composer as a free citizen, who is allowed to move boldly through the variable structure of the sonata in full self-awareness, who makes this form his own and breathes new meaning into it.

Gerhard Oppitz was born in Frauenau (in the Bavarian Forest) in 1953. At the age of five, he began to play piano and debuted with a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D Minor when he was eleven. Oppitz received his formal training in Stuttgart and Munich starting in 1966 with professors Paul Buck and Hugo Steurer, and later with Wilhelm Kempff, concentrating on the works of Beethoven. In 1977, he was awarded first prize at the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Israel. Oppitz’s main interest is the classical-romantic repertoire although he has always devoted himself to music of the twentieth century as well. Oppitz is widely renowned and respected for his programming major repertoire and cycles, such as Bach’s »Wohltemperiertes Klavier«, Mozart’s eighteen sonatas, Beethoven’s 32 sonatas, all the solo works by Schubert and Brahms’ complete piano works. Since 1981, he has been teaching post-graduate students at the Academy of Music in Munich.