Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 17 & 23

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This programme of three minor-key Sonatas summons from Ingrid Fliter a suitably serious response...The high point arrives with the Appassionata, where Fliter adds more power and agitation to... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd May 2011
Catalogue No: 0945732
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 72 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2011

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'

Work length22:00

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Ingrid Fliter (piano)
Recorded: 2010-12-01
Recording Venue: 11-13 Dec, 2010, Potton Hall, Suffolk

Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio

Track length11:16

Album only

Adagio cantabile

Track length5:51

$1.30

$1.70

Rondo: Allegro

Track length4:53

$1.30

$1.70

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'

Work length25:59

$3.90

$5.10

Ingrid Fliter (piano)
Recorded: 2010-12-01
Recording Venue: 11-13 Dec, 2010, Potton Hall, Suffolk

I. Largo - Allegro

Track length9:50

$1.30

$1.70

II. Adagio

Track length9:11

$1.30

$1.70

III. Allegretto

Track length6:58

$1.30

$1.70

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'

Work length24:54

Album only

Ingrid Fliter (piano)
Recorded: 2011-01-01
Recording Venue: 15 & 16 Jan, 2011, Potton Hall, Suffolk

Allegro assai

Track length10:01

Album only

Andante con moto

Track length6:33

$1.30

$1.70

Allegro ma non troppo

Track length8:20

$1.30

$1.70

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Recording of the Week, Fliter and Ibragimova excel in Beethoven

25th April 2011

Ingrid Fliter records the Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 17 and 23 on Warner Classics, and Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien continue their excellent series of the violin sonatas on Wigmore Hall Live.

Three of the most passionate and powerful of Beethoven’s sonatas with titles to match: Beethoven’s Appassionata, Pathétique and Tempest sonatas are three of his best-known and most dramatic piano works, here presented together on one recording by of the most exciting young female pianists.

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August 2011

This programme of three minor-key Sonatas summons from Ingrid Fliter a suitably serious response...The high point arrives with the Appassionata, where Fliter adds more power and agitation to her approach...Fliter's playing may be poised and earnest rather than flashy, but although one might wish for more visceral energy, her intensity and commitment are everywhere apparent.

01/08/2011

Ingrid Fliter, playing with ever-refulgent tone, here gives us the pianistic equivalent of a careful drive

August 2011

it is surely Fliter's cardinal virtue that she gives you a renewed sense of wonder at the composer's pioneering strength and eloquence...it is wonderful indeed to encounter a pianist of such exalted yet natural and unforced artistry.

5th June 2011

Fliter’s temperament and understanding of the turbulent emotional shifts of Beethoven’s piano writing at this stage of his life (in his early thirties) are refreshing at a time when the market is flooded with well-played but bland interpretations...this is one of the most exhilarating and powerful performances of [the Appassionata] among recent recordings...These thrillingly played interpretations whet the appetite for more.

9th June 2011

The titles of these sonatas summon up a stormy, blood-and-thunder vision of Beethoven. That isn’t Ingrid Fliter’s way. Her approach is grandly spacious, and full of the subtle pedal effects you normally expect in Chopin. This lends the “Pathétique” Sonata a proud, Racine-like pathos which I’ve never heard before...a remarkable disc.

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 17 & 23

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