Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19, 15, 30 & 32

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Release Date: 22nd Apr 2022
Catalogue No: ICAC5165
Label: ica classics
Length: 76 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Historical

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1

Work length8:13

$2.00

$3.00

Annie Fischer

I. Andante

Track length4:21

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$1.50

II. Rondo

Track length3:52

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$1.50

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'

Work length24:03

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$7.60

Annie Fischer

I. Allegro

Track length8:51

$1.50

$2.30

II. Andante

Track length7:51

$1.50

$2.30

III. Scherzo

Track length2:22

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$1.50

IV. Rondo

Track length4:59

$1.00

$1.50

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Work length18:01

$4.05

$6.05

Annie Fischer

I. Vivace, ma non troppo

Track length3:41

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$1.50

II. Prestissimo

Track length2:26

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$1.50

III. Andante, molto cantabile ed espressivo

Track length11:54

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Work length26:28

Album only

Annie Fischer

I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato

Track length9:10

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$2.30

II. Arietta

Track length17:18

Album only

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Bryce Morrison, the celebrated critic and authority on piano music, described the pre-eminent Hungarian pianist as follows: ‘Annie Fischer was among the greatest and most richly comprehensive of all pianists’. The distinguished Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, notoriously critical, described her as ‘an artist imbued with a spirit of greatness and with genuine profundity’. Fischer was universally acclaimed in Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and Chopin as well as her own compatriots, Liszt, Bartók and Kodály. Despite her international reputation, however, in comparison with other pianists of her generation she is probably the least represented on disc. This was mainly due to a distaste for the recording process - she preferred the freedom and spontaneity of live performances. It is a well known that her studio recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas were made over many years and with many different producers. She was never satisfied with the results, so in this BBC recital of selected Beethoven sonatas, Annie Fischer is heard as she would have wanted - live and caught on the wing, making this recording very valuable. Misha Donat, her producer for Sonata No.30, said: “she hated working in the studio so these are real performances; they were always done in a complete ‘take’, though sometimes she would play through a movement twice”.

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19, 15, 30 & 32

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