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Beethoven: The Late Sonatas

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About this Album

This double album features the five piano sonatas composed during Beethoven’s “late period,” in which personal turmoil forced a stylistic shift towards more challenging, introspective pieces. The New York Times described Goode’s performances here as “remarkable” and “surprisingly intimate,” praising his playing both for its “organic naturalness” and “unerringly lyric sensibility.”

Credits

MUSICIANS
Richard Goode, piano

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox
Recorded August 1986 at RCA Studio “A,” and June and July 1988 at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig

Art direction and design: M&Co., New York
Photography by Chris Callis

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