Beethoven: The Op. 10 Piano Sonatas

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Beethoven’s Op. 10 piano sonatas were a critical step in the composer's career, both absorbing the influences of Mozart and Haydn and superseding them, pointing the way for his own artistic development. Goode, whose interpretations the New York Times describes as possessing “both integrity and immediacy,” performs the three Op. 10 sonatas in their entirety.

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Beethoven’s Op. 10 piano sonatas, published together in 1798, were a critical step in the composer's career, both absorbing the influences of Mozart and Haydn and superseding them, pointing the way for his own artistic development. Richard Goode, whose interpretations the New York Times describes as possessing “both integrity and immediacy,” performs the three Op. 10 sonatas in their entirety.

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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox
Recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City

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

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79213

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1disc
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Richard Goode
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Richard Goode, piano

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CD+MP3
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075597921328BUN
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News & Reviews

  • Richard Goode's Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas, first released on Nonesuch in 1993 and nominated for a Grammy Award, is available once again on CD, now at a new, lower price. The box set includes ten individual CD sleeves and a forty-page booklet with the original liner note by the late musicologist Michael Steinberg. "An outstanding set," exclaims the New York Times. "It is hard to think of any other artist at once technically, temperamentally and intellectually as suited to the challenges of these sonatas." The Guardian calls it "superb." Gramophone says it's "one of the finest interpretations ever put on record."

  • Richard Goode, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and conductor Iván Fischer tour the US with music from their Nonesuch recording of the complete Beethoven piano concertos for the first time. The all-Beethoven program, which varies from night to night, pairs either concerto No. 2 or 4 with two symphonies per night, from among No. 1, 5, 8, and 9. The concerts begin at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark this Saturday, followed by Lincoln Center in New York City, Chicago Symphony Center, Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium, and Boston Symphony Hall.

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    Beethoven’s Op. 10 piano sonatas, published together in 1798, were a critical step in the composer's career, both absorbing the influences of Mozart and Haydn and superseding them, pointing the way for his own artistic development. Richard Goode, whose interpretations the New York Times describes as possessing “both integrity and immediacy,” performs the three Op. 10 sonatas in their entirety.

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Richard Goode, piano

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox
    Recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City

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

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