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Haydn: Sonata #52 / Beethoven: "Tempest" Sonata / Chopin: Etudes
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, H. 16/52: Allegro (moderato)
2. Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, H. 16/52: Adagio
3. Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, H. 16/52: Finale. Presto
4. Andante with variations for piano in F minor, H. 17/6
5. Fantasia (Capriccio) for piano in C major, H. 17/4
6. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor ('Tempest'), Op. 31/2: Largo - Allegro
7. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor ('Tempest'), Op. 31/2: Adagio
8. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor ('Tempest'), Op. 31/2: Allegretto
9. Etude for piano No. 13 in A flat major, Op. 25/1, CT. 26
10. Etude for piano No. 14 in F minor, Op. 25/2, CT. 27
11. Etude for piano No. 15 in F major, Op. 25/3, CT 28.
12. Etude for piano No. 18 in G sharp minor, Op. 25/6, CT. 31
13. Etude for piano No. 20 in D flat major, Op. 25/8, CT. 33
14. Etude for piano No. 21 in G flat major, Op. 25/9, C. 34
15. Etude for piano No. 5 in G flat major, Op. 10/5, CT. 18
16. Nocturne for piano No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27/2, CT. 115
17. Waltz for piano No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 18, CT. 207

CD Details

All Artists: Backhaus
Title: Haydn: Sonata #52 / Beethoven: "Tempest" Sonata / Chopin: Etudes
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Release Date: 4/13/1994
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Fantasies, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Romantic (c.1820-1910)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 750582350320

CD Reviews

Serene objectivity; Apollonian lyricism!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 07/04/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

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The next July 5, thirty seven years will have elapsed since the awful missing of this famed and yet, not well recognized pianist.

Wilhelm Backhaus has been one of the most monumental pianists ever born, despite his particular playing style doesn't engage you from the first time. He demands a long process of balanced depuration between spirit and reason. As a matter of fact, he literally remained trapped between two visible musical tendencies in visible expansion process, the Neo romantic school and the impressionistic school. He decided to maintain well attained to his firm beliefs, and held the flag of the great German masters and even Austrian composers, with denoted objectivity.

Personally, I think his Haydn is possibly, the most expansive, radiant, playful, cheerful, crystalline and satisfactory I have ever heard. It possesses a cosmic purity and an elusive nature that elevates the composer.

You may realize how he loved to play the Andante with Variations, (that became through his hands a personal landmark): Nobody like him has been able to display such imagination, and sublime perfection around this Opus that to my mind constitutes the most visible futurist approach among any other piano piece of Haydn.

The performance about the Sonata in E flat major is radiant, WARMTH AND EXP he plays it from the darkness to the total illumination.

This record is a fortunate selection of a notable live recital from Lugano on May 18 1960, when he was in his 74. His Beethoven is quite interesting, in fact ., "the tempest" is by far the most introspective opus of Beethoven that demands from the performer, to be be absolutely immersed in the Shakesperian ethos, carefully phrased with this increasing tension in the first movement; the adagio is mesmerizing, what enraptured phrasing, but the Allegretto is the jewel of the crown; power, ravishing fingering and besides an eloquent expressiveness where he remarks the heroic noblesse above sentimentality; his Chopin is incredibly vivid, sumptuously phrased without those theatrical grimaces to win applauses from the gallery

A collection album.

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