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THE LATE SONATAS
VOLUME II.
Andrew Rangell, Piano
These Sonatas - unequalled in their immediacy, their compression and distillation of experience, their depth of individuation - represent a new order of personal expression. Their created worlds constitute, I think, a most prophetic and comprehensive embodiment of the term "quasi-fantasia" - That Beethoven had used a subtitle for his opus 27 sonatas. In a lifetime of endowing the unpredictable, and even the fantastic, with an inner logic truer than the at-hand variety, Beethoven in the last sonatas surely approached his own ideals of formal mastery, of unfettered expression, and of genuine fantasy.
- Andrew Rangell © 1990
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Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 (1820) [1] Vivace, ma non troppo; Adagio espressivo [2] Prestissimo [3] Andante con variazioni: Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110 (1821) [4] Moderato cantabile [5] Allegro molto [6] Recitativo: Adagio, ma non troppo: Arioso dolente; Fuga: Allegro, ma non troppo; L'istesso tempo di Arioso: L'istesso tempo della Fuga Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 (1822) [7] Maestoso: Allegro con brio ed appassionato [8] Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile |
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