András Schiff Explores the Beethoven Piano Sonatas

András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004–6 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’.

On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are now available below to hear as eight lecture-recitals.

You can listen to the lecture-recitals online or to save the file so you can listen on an mp3 player: right-click the podcast link, select ‘Save Link As…‘ and save it to your computer.

Part one

• 1 Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 2 No. 1 (00:40:11)
• 2 Piano Sonata in A major Op. 2 No. 2 (00:18:48)
• 3 Piano Sonata in C major Op. 2 No. 3 (00:21:10)
• 4 Piano Sonata in E-flat major Op. 7 (00:26:35)

Part two

• 5 Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 10 No. 1 (00:50:51)
• 6 Piano Sonata in F major Op. 10 No. 2 (00:23:42)
• 7 Piano Sonata in D major Op. 10 No. 3 (00:32:45)
• 8 Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ (00:25:57)

Part three

• 9 Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 49 No. 1 (00:27:44)
• 10 Piano Sonata in G major Op. 49 No. 2 (00:13:37)
• 11 Piano Sonata in E major Op. 14 No. 1 (00:27:04)
• 12 Piano Sonata in G major Op. 14 No. 2 (00:18:52)
• 13 Piano Sonata in B-flat major Op. 22 (00:32:06)

Part four

• 14 Piano sonata in A-flat major Op. 26 (00:39:25)
• 15 Piano sonata in E-flat major Op. 27 No. 1 (00:24:48)
• 16 Piano sonata in C-sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ (00:26:34)
• 17 Piano sonata in D major Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’ (00:26:03)

Part five

• 18 Piano sonata in G major Op. 31 No. 1 (00:38:28)
• 19 Piano sonata in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’ (00:40:24)
• 20 Piano sonata in E-flat major Op. 31 No. 3 (00:16:18)
• 21 Piano sonata in C major Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ (00:48:21)

Part six

• 22 Piano Sonata in F major Op. 54 (00:32:41)
• 23 Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ (00:46:17)
• 24 Piano Sonata in F-sharp major Op. 78 (00:15:46)
• 25 Piano Sonata in G major Op. 79 (00:06:36)
• 26 Piano Sonata in E-flat major Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ (00:28:25)

Part seven

• 27 Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90 (00:47:38)
• 28 Piano Sonata in A major Op. 101 (00:45:14)
• 29 Piano Sonata in B-flat major Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ (00:39:31)
• 30 Piano Sonata in B-flat major Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ (continued) (00:43:31)

Part eight

• 31 Piano Sonata in E major Op. 109 (00:49:54)
• 32 Piano Sonata in A-flat major Op. 110 (00:38:47)
• 33 Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 111 (00:43:16)

from: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

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