Pierre Fournier & Friedrich Gulda
Release Date: 08 November 2019
Label: Urania Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8051773573835
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Pierre Fournier has recorded this complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven twice: in 1967 with Wilhelm Kempff and the first time in 1959 (the one proposed in this edition), with Friedrich Gulda.
Beethoven's Cello Works (Sonatas and Variations) were composed from 1797 to 1817. The first two Sonatas, those of Op. 5, already testify at the beginning of Beethoven's official catalogue the great importance that the composer gave to these young compositions. The Op. 5, however, is ahead of its time and, like the Sonata Pathetica, already expresses a totally personal and revolutionary style. The undisputed masterpiece of maturity is the Op. 69 of 1808, unanimously considered as his masterpiece for this instrumental formation. The last two Sonatas collected in Op. 102 of 1815 are already part of that mysterious and experimental period that will have its apex with the last, abstract, string quartets. The Variations created in this twenty-year period are wonderful pieces for Cello and Piano which, however, do not aspire to have their own personality.
Tracklisting
Sviatoslav Richter, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Luigi Chiarizia
Claudio Ronco & Emanuel Vozza
Ensemble Mark Rothko
Furiosi Affetti Ensemble, Lorenzo Gugole, Giorgio Bottiglion
Elena Suliotis, Mario Del Monaco, Fiorenza Cossotto, Orchestra and Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Silvio Varviso
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Francesco Pasqualotto
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig
Hanspeter Oggier; Marina Vasilyeva
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Ensemble Agamemnon, Francois Cardey
