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Beethoven: Sonata Opus 101 "Immortal Beloved" (1998)
This CD features a first attempt
to translate my discoveries
concerning the Click on the links below to download FREE sample tracks. CD Contents Johannes Brahms
1833-1897 Gabriel Fauré
1845-1924 Franz Schubert
1797-1828 |
Immortal Beloved in
sound. The booklet details how I
arrived at my understanding of her
identity and how the name "Dorothea"
permeates the work from beginning to
end. In fact, the whole sonata
develops seamlessly out of the motif
contained in the first two measures. I have had to make an Herculean
effort to not fall victim to "the
romantic virus" and some of that
effort shows; but at least the
"silences of articulation" are in
their proper place (mostly) so that
Beethoven's great love-paean becomes
intelligible. I prefer my later recording of
the work (in "A Beethoven Triptych")
but there is in this present album
the undeniable excitement of a first
love. Brahms fine set of character
piece (Opus 118) and a sampling of Fauré's lovely Nocturnes bring us
back to the early Romantic poet of
the piano, Franz Schubert. The
Impromptu in Gb Major sums up in its
few, unsurpassed pages the essence
of the romantic temperament and
sensibility.
