Say - Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas - Import 9 CD

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Piano Sonatas recorded in full by the prodigious pianist Fazil Sai for the bicentennial of Beethoven's birthThe complete piano sonata recordings were released to commemorate the bicentennial of Beethoven's birth in 2020. Fazil Say says of the complete works, which were recorded in time and in fullness at his favorite venue, the Mozarteum Salzburg, as follows. ●"Beethoven is my idol and mentor (his own teacher and advisor)." As of May 2017, I had played only 14 Beethoven sonatas, and I made it my own goal to learn the remaining 18 perfectly by 2020. at the age of 8, I played my first small sonata, and by the time I was in my 30s, I had played a few pieces in concert and released 5 albums, but was never satisfied with the results. This time, over a period of two years, I recorded five different sections in 18 days. It was hard work, but working on 32 sonatas was a never-ending motivator for me.● "I wanted to present the music with the utmost freshness and brilliance." The entire 605-minute work, including the 32 sonatas, is like a sacred text for a musician. There have been various recordings by musicians of the 20th century, but I believe that this time I was able to express Beethoven in a way that no one but me could have done. I expressed all the sounds as if I were listening to an orchestra, including my own inner voice, "as if I were conducting and recreating the sounds of the great conductors of the past. I also tried to imagine that Beethoven was sitting next to me and teaching me the music. ● "I invented my own personal light motifs." Music always needs to be associated with something, and the narrative needs to be clear. To name and dramatize a melody. I have applied this idea to the complete sonatas. To the sonatas with names, as well as to the sonatas without names. ● The later works of Beethoven, "a revolutionary composer who wrote music 50 to 100 years ahead of his time," contain important steps toward Brahms, Wagner, Schumann, and later composers.This is true not only for the mood of the works, but also for the piano technique, which clearly takes on the texture of an orchestral tone. In particular, the last six pieces have a different tone from the earlier works. One senses that Beethoven was looking to the future and composing for the next 50 to 100 years. Music must be new each time it is played. Every time the piece is played, it should feel as if it were written now. The important thing would be to convey the emotion of what we are trying to say now. Of course, we should not say that "anything other than the way Beethoven would have played it is wrong. It is the composer's pleasure that different interpretations occur. Warner Music Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Sonata No. 1 in F Minor Op. 2 No. 1~I. Allegro
2.Sonata No. 1 in F Minor Op. 2 No. 1~II. Adagio
3.Sonata No. 1 in F Minor Op. 2 No. 1~III. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio
4.Sonata No. 1 in F Minor Op. 2 No. 1~IV. Prestissimo
5.Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2~I. Allegro vivace
6.Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2~II. Largo appassionato
7.Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2~III. Scherzo: Allegretto - Trio
8.Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2~IV. Rondo: Grazioso
9.Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3~I. Allegro con brio
10.Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3~II. Adagio
11.Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3~III. Scherzo: Allegro - Trio
12.Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3~IV. Allegro assai
13.Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2~III. Scherzo: Allegro assai
14.Sonata No. 13 in E Flat Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 1~I. Andante - Allegro - Andante
15.Sonata No. 13 in E Flat Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 1~II. Allegro molto e vivace
16.Sonata No. 13 in E Flat Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 1~III. Adagio con espressione
17.Sonata No. 13 in E Flat Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 1~IV. Allegro vivace
18.Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"~I. Adagio sostenuto
19.Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"~II. Allegretto
20.Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"~III. Presto agitato