Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Domenico Scarlatti, Carl Tausig, Carl Maria von Weber
Performer: Benno Moiseiwitsch
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111115
Release: 2006
Size: 216 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathetique’
01. I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio
02. II. Adagio cantabile
03. III. Rondo. Allegro
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
04. I. Adagio sostenuto
05. II. Allegretto
06. III. Presto agitato
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’
07. I. Allegro con brio
08. II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
09. III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato – Prestissimo
10. Beethoven: Andante Favori in F, WoO 57
11. Beethoven: Rondo in C Major, Op. 51, No. 1
12. Tausig: Pastorale in E Minor / Capriccio in E Major
Weber: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 24
13. IV. Rondo, “Perpetuum mobile”
Moiseiwitsch was a virtuoso in the most aristocratic sense, incomparably fleet and vivacious in the Pathétique’s Allegro di molto con brio, coolly without falseness or special pleading in the Adagio, sleek and feline in the finale. He eases his way into the Moonlight’s Allegretto with typical insouciance and you can only marvel at his dazzling and propulsive spin through the Waldstein. Such playing is beyond price…