Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM902442
Release: 2022
Size: 970 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight”
01. I. Adagio sostenuto
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Presto agitato
Piano Sonata No. 23 In F Minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”
04. I. Allegro assai
05. II. Andante con moto
06. III. Allegro ma non troppo – Presto
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 “The Tempest”
07. I. Largo – Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Allegretto
For this second volume of Beethoven sonatas, Nikolai Lugansky goes back in time and selects three milestones in the composer’s stylistic evolution: the ‘Moonlight’, the ‘Tempest’ and the ‘Appassionata’. The Master of Bonn gradually broke with the models he had inherited from the codes of Viennese Classicism in order to give free rein to affect, emotion and Romantic gesture.
With these three works, Beethoven laid the foundations of a free and humanistic art.