Release Date: 15 November 2024
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917298024
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
For his debut release on Challenge, Roberto Prosseda has chosen to record the three Sonatas opus 2 by Beethoven, and for a more personal interpretation, he has selected to perform on a Graf forte piano dated 1820.
Can something new, interesting and 'true' still be said about the interpretation of Beethoven's sonatas? I believe so, provided we break out of the conventions created by the tradition of interpretation and discography, where in 98% of cases a modern piano is used. Therefore, I thought that the choice of recording Beethoven on a historical instrument could also be a way for a more individual interpretative investigation, free from the models that listening to famous recordings on a modern piano risks accustoming us to. I do not believe that there is a 'right' and a 'wrong' instrument on which to perform Beethoven's Sonatas Opus 2. What matters is the musical result. It depends on the alchemy that is created between the performer and the instrument. Before I came to choose the Graf No. 429, I tried at length various modern copies of fortepiano from 1795 - 1800, trying to get closer to the sound and expressive world of early Beethoven.However, having the opportunity of having a Graf fortepiano (No. 429) in my studio, restored in 2023, I was able to prepare this recording on that instrument, playing it regularly for a year, achieving a kind of familiarity with its action and timbral response that I have grown fond of.
- from the linernotes of the album, by Robert Prosseda
'"Can something new, interesting and 'true' still be said about the interpretation of Beethoven sonatas?" is the rhetorical question Prosseda poses in the booklet notes. This recording resoundingly answers in the affirmative, while offering plentiful listening pleasures.' – Gramophone
Tracklisting
New European Ensemble, Christopher Bouwman, Tito Munoz
Philippe Thuriot
Roctet
Brackman Trio
Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor; Erich Traxler
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Aart Bergwerff
Martin Nobauer
Alexei Lubimov
Cristian Sandrin
Yuuko Shiokawa; Andras Schiff
Anja Lechner
Christoph Ullrich
Jozef De Beenhouwer
Philippe Thuriot
