Beethoven: The Late Sonatas

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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.”

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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.”

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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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79211

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2discs
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Richard Goode
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MUSICIANS
Richard Goode, piano
 

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CD+MP3
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075597921120BUN
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MP3
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19.00
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603497127962
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News & Reviews

  • The Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koerner Hall in Toronto has announced its 2023–24 concert season—the venue’s fifteenth anniversary season—including performances from Rhiannon Giddens, Brad Mehldau, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, and Richard Goode.

     

     

  • 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."

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    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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