Since you are interested in Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 & 3, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CHOPIN
Complete Preludes (with Schumann-Papillons Op.2) Claudio Arrau (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] In just 40 minutes, the cosmos was created. To be sure, here we are talking solely about a pianistic cosmos: yet it is one that still, more than 170 years after its creation, remains breath-taking and arouses many diverse emotions, including... |
SCHUBERT
Lieder (Incls An Sylvia & Die Liebe hat gelogen) (Rec 1972/75) Elly Ameling (soprano) Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "Amelings interpretations surpass superlatives….This is Ameling in 1972 and 1975 at her absolute peak….In the Philips stereo releases Ameling sings equally good, but only in the PentaTone edition you can hear what producers Wilhelm Hellweg and... |
MOZART / SCHUBERT
Opera & Concert Arias Elly Ameling (soprano) Dalton Baldwin (piano) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] "Yet another winner from PentaTone! This SA-CD is a delight from start to finish. Elly Ameling's lovely voice is captured to perfection in each of these Mozart and Schubert arias recorded in London (1972) and Rotterdam (1975) respectively." ---SA-CD... |
LISZT
12 Etudes D'Execution Transcendente Claudio Arrau (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] The Études d'exécution transcendante presented in this interpretation by Claudio Arrau are their third and final version from 1851. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53; Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 Appassionata; Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat Op.81a Les adieux Mari Kodama - piano [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] All Pentatone SACDs are 5.1 stereo sound. Playable on all Compact Disc players |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 Moonlight; Piano Sonata No.4 in E flat Op.7; Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor Op.13 Patha Mari Kodama (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] All Penatone SACDs are 5.1 stereo sound. Playable on all Compact Disc players |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16, 17 & 18 Mari Kodama (piano) [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] The Sonatas Op. 31, which were composed during the years 1801/02, occupy a special place in Beethoven's sonata oeuvre, as they mark a new beginning for the composer |
CHOPIN / LOEWE
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21 / Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Mari Kodama (piano) / Russian National Orchestra / Kent Nagano [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 6/Jul/2005 ] "Mari Kodama who numbers Brendel and Tatiana Nikolaeva among her teachers, is an impressive soloist happy to note-spin with all the required ease and facility in the Loewe and to provide a good deal more in the Chopin." ---Bryce Morrison, Gramophone... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat / Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor Pathetique Misha Dichter (piano / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Kurt Masur [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] Brahms probably wrestled with his Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 to a greater degree and for a longer period of time than with any other work. |