New Album Releases: BEETHOVEN - HAMMERKLAVIER (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

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Artist:
Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
66:47

Record Label:
Pentatone

Purchasing Links:
CD, Apple Music

Release Date
July 2, 2021



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Product Description: Beethoven: Hammerklavier Sonata & Eroica Variations After his acclaimed interpretation of Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to PENTATONE with a recording of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata and Eroica Variations.

The Hammerklavier Sonata is one of the pinnacles of Beethoven’s creative output, and arguably one of the highest mountains to climb for any pianist. To Aimard, it poses one of the most frightening tests of a performer’s life, but one that is as irresistible as it is insurmountable. The dazzling Eroica Variations are nicknamed after Beethoven’s iconoclastic Third Symphony, and employ the melody he would later use as the main theme of the symphony’s finale. Beethoven’s fondness for this melody is evident, as he also used it in his ballet music for The Creatures of Prometheus, as well as in the seventh of his 12 Contredanses.

TRACK LIST:

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Piano Sonata No. 29 .in B-flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"

1 . I. Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (11:57)

2 . II. Scherzo: Assai vivace Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (2:53)

3 . III. Adagio sostenuto Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (16:46)

4 . IV. Largo - Allegro risoluto Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (12:11)



15 .Variations and a Fugue in E-flat Major, Op. 35, "Eroica Variations"

5 . Introduzione col Basso del Tema Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (3:25)

6 . Variation 1 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:38)

7 . Variation 2 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:50)

8 . Variation 3 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:43)

9 . Variation 4 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:40)

10 . Variation 5 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:52)

11 . Variation 6 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:39)

12 . Variation 7 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:38)

13 . Variation 8 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:53)

14 . Variation 9 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:40)

15 . Variation 10 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:37)

16 . Variation 11 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:47)

17 . Variation 12 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:42)

18 . Variation 13 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (0:40)

19 . Variation 14 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (1:16)

20 . Variation 15 . Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (4:29)

21 . Finale. Alla Fuga Ludwig van Beethoven Pierre-Laurent Aimard (4:31)

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