Release Date: 01 May 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178790
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Release Date: 01 May 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178790
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Description
Following his highly acclaimed Beethoven ‘Moonlight’, ‘Pathetique’ and ‘Waldstein’ Sonatas release, Hyperion’s Gramophone-award-winning artist Steven Osborne turns his talents to Beethoven’s complete Bagatelles. Though the composer himself referred to these thirty short piano works, which he penned throughout his life, as ‘trifles’, these are nonetheless trifles from the mind of a genius. In this polished album, Osborne lends his remarkable artistry to everything from the Six Bagatelles of Op 126, which at times occupy the same rarefied spiritual world as the late quartets and were the very last works Beethoven ever wrote for the piano, to the composer’s most famous stand-alone piano piece, the mysterious little A minor Bagatelle known to all the world as ‘Fur Elise’.
Tracklisting
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne, Martin Roscoe
Alina Ibragimova, Steven Osborne
Alban Gerhardt, Steven Osborne
Alban Gerhardt, Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne, Paul Lewis