Release Date: 04 November 2022
Label: C-Avi
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260085534937
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Beethoven
Description
Daniel Heide releases the second volume in his survey of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas including the ever popular 'Pastorale' and 'Moonlight' sonatas.
When I first heard Beethoven's Sonata No 15 in D Major, op 28, the "Pastoral", it immediately conquered my heart. The swaying, deeply resounding, velvety bass notes and the tender theme in the right hand continue to produce a melodious sense of well-being in me to this day. A series of slow, melodious arches alternating with incisive, characteristic insertions create the general mood in the first movement.
Then the entire second movement is pervaded by a relentless staccato figure in the left hand: these tranquil sixteenth notes, with their metronomical
precision, provide a guiding framework for the right hand's dignified theme. In the middle section, we are surprised by the onset of a harlequinesque
alternation between dotted chords and whimsical triplets in the right hand, which lasts until the initial main theme and its accurately pulsating left-hand
accompaniment call everyone back to order. In the last section, Beethoven accelerates the theme to thirty-second note runs – leading to a culmination
before the music suddenly becomes quiet and the movement fades out in tranquil transcendence.
In the scherzo we are confronted with an accurate, reactive joy of music-making combined with an outgoing sense of humor, and the same variety of pulsating playing pleasure is likewise prolonged throughout the last movement. This is not a furious finale, but a mischievous, swaying Rundgesang (stanza-and-refrain) with an affectionate rondo theme that returns again and again. A breakneck coda in Presto time allows the soloist to conclude this grand sonata with bravura. I still well remember my admission exam for the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1996. My programme included Beethoven's "Pastoral" sonata; the jury allowed me to play portions of all movements, and I was admitted!
Tracklisting
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Kathrin Zukowski, KammerMusikKoln
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Premysl Vojta, Florence Millet, Ye Wu
Herbert Schuch, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Daniel Heide
Daniel Heide, Andreas Willwohl & Isang Enders
Daniel Heide
