Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas - Vladimir Ashkenazy (CD 7-10 of 10CD)

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Somewhat to my surprise, the Ashkenazy cycle is the best recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas. I bought every Beethoven recording by every major Beethoven pianist and spent over 1,000 hours comparing all those recordings to each other. The only cycles close to the Ashkenazy are the little-known Claude Frank, Seymour Lipkin and Paul Badura-Skoda cycles (the Badura-Skoda cycle of 1970 on the grand piano, not the fortepiano version). After those come the better-known cycles by Richard Goode, Barenboim (2nd cycle, for DGG), and Kempff (2nd cycle, in stereo), and the little-known cycle by Annie Fischer. I leave aside the Schnabel set which continues to define the standard for interpretations despite inadequate sound, and many high-quality recordings by Richter who never did a complete cycle.

I say "somewhat to my surprise," because Ashkenazy is not known as a Beethoven pianist. He is regarded as a great interpreter of romantic music, with the big technique and beautiful tone needed for that repertoire. Well, he has the big technique and beautiful tone, which is good. However, what is most noticeable to me is the scrupulous attention paid to Beethoven's text. In that regard, Ashkenazy is the equal of Claude Frank and Rudolf Serkin, which is high praise indeed.

The purpose of buying a complete cycle is usually to form a base for a collection. One can quibble with some of Ashkenazy's interpretative details or with Decca's recording techniques. However, the question then becomes: what is the alternative? The competing cycles are either a little worse or a lot worse. After buying one complete cycle, the lover of Beethoven can then add a number of other sonata recordings -- the Horowitz recordings for RCA Victor, the Rubinstein recordings, the Gieseking disk of the Pathetique and other works, the Pollini late sonatas, many of the Richter recordings. If I am asked to recommend one Beethoven sonata cycle as the basis for a collection, I would unhesitatingly recommend the Ashkenazy Decca cycle.

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TRACKLISTDisc: 1
1. 1. Allegro
2. 2. Adagio
3. 3. Menuetto & Trio: Allegretto
4. 4. Prestissimo
5. 1. Allegro vivace
6. 2. Largo appassionato
7. 3. Scherzo & Trio: Allegretto
8. 4. Rondo: Grazioso
9. 2. Adagio
10. 3. Scherzo & Trio: Allegro
11. 4. Allegro assai

Disc: 2
1. 1. Allegro molto e con brio
2. 2. Largo, con gran espressione
3. 3. Allegro
4. 4. Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso
5. 1. Molto allegro e con brio
6. 2. Adagio molto
7. 3. Finale: Prestissimo
8. 1. Allegro
9. 2. Allegretto
10. 3. Presto

Disc: 3
1. 1. Presto
2. 2. Largo e mesto
3. 3. Menuetto & Trio: Allegro
4. 4. Rondo: Allegro
5. 1. Grave
6. 2. Adagio cantabile
7. 3. Rondo: Allegro
8. 1. Allegro
9. 2. Allegretto
10. 3. Rondo: Allegro commodo
11. 1. Allegro
12. 2. Andante
13. 3. Scherzo: Allegro assai

Disc: 4
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Adagio con molto espressione
3. 3. Menuetto
4. 4. Rondo: Allegretto
5. 1. Andante con variazioni
6. 2. Scherzo & Trio: Allegro molto
7. 3. Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un eroe
8. 4. Allegro
9. 1. Andante - Allegro
10. 2. Allegro molto e vivace
11. 3. Adagio con espressione
12. 4. Allegro vivace - Presto

Disc: 5
1. 1. Adagio sostenuto
2. 2. Allegretto & Trio
3. 3. Presto agitato
4. 1. Allegro
5. 2. Andante
6. 3. Scherzo & Trio: Allegro vivace
7. 4. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
8. 1. Allegro vivace
9. 2. Adagio grazioso
10. 3. Rondo: Allegretto

Disc: 6
1. 1. Largo - Allegro
2. 2. Adagio
3. 3. Allegretto
4. 1. Allegro
5. 2. Scherzo: Allegretto vivace
6. 3. Menuetto & Trio: Moderato e grazioso
7. 4. Presto con fuoco
8. 1. Andante
9. 2. Rondo: Allegro
10. 1. Allegro ma non troppo
11. 2. Tempo di menuetto

Disc: 7
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Introduzione: Molto adagio
3. 3. Rondo: Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
4. 1. In tempo d'un menuetto
5. 2. Allegretto
6. 1. Allegro assai
7. 2. Andante con moto
8. 3. Allegro ma non troppo
9. 1. Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
10. 2. Allegro vivace

Disc: 8
1. 1. Presto alla tedesca
2. 2. Andante
3. 3. Vivace
4. 1. Adagio - Allegro
5. 2. Andante espressivo
6. 3. Vivacissimamente
7. 1. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
8. 2. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen
9. 1. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung
10. 2. Lebhaft. MarschmÃ¤ÃŸig
11. 3. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll / 4. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit

Disc: 9
1. 1. Allegro
2. 2. Scherzo: Assai vivace
3. 3. Adagio sostenuto, appassionato e con molto sentimento
4. 4. Largo - Allegro risoluto

Disc: 10
1. 1. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo
2. 2. Prestissimo
3. 3. Andante, molto cantabile ed espressivo
4. 1. Moderato cantabile, molto espressivo
5. 2. Allegro molto
6. 3. Adagio, ma non troppo
7. Fuga: Allegro, ma non troppo
8. 1. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
9. 2. Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile

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