Complete your beethoven, wilhelm backhaus collection. The first thing you notice about these performances is the dark, registrally differentiated timbres of garrick ohlssons bosendorfer grand piano. Beethoven, wilhelm backhaus the piano sonatas discogs. Wilhelm backhaus 18841969 left a 60year recorded legacy which began in 1908, but though known particularly for beethoven and brahms in his later years, he performed a much wider repertoire before the war as seen on the companion set apr6026 and the four sonatas and two concertos included here are the totality of his early beethoven output. Backhaus readings are still widely regarded as among the best recordings. Piano sonatas 2 box set wilhelm backhaus on allmusic 1992. The recording career of wilhelm backhaus spanned an extraordinary 60 years. Although he managed to finish 31 out of the 32, the pianist died before he got around to remaking the hammerklavier op. Ludwig van beethoven, wilhelm backhaus wilhelm backhaus. Niestetaler kammerkonzerte september 10, 2015 complete your beethoven wilhelm backhaus collection. A panoramic survey of beethovens hammerklavier sonata, op. The pathetique sonata 28 january 1927 resonates with thoughtful authority, its first movement a dramatic confrontation of the composers pain, in chromatics.
Wilhelm backhaus wigmore hall concert programmes from 26. Were wilhelm backhaus 18841969 to come on the scene today, he would never be accepted seriously as a beethoven player. A beethoven piano weekend, wilhelm kempff piano, 2005, cd. This set is comprised of the stereo recordings made between 1958 and 1969, with the exception of the hammerklavier, which backhaus was unable to set down before his death in 1969. His occasional added bass octaves, failure to play most repeats and idiosyncratic approach to markings he seemed to have little patience for the slow movements in beethoven would doom him with the critics and maybe the public too. Backhaus recorded extensively for decca throughout the 1950s and 1960s and recorded works by beethoven, brahms, haydn, mendelssohn, mozart, and schumann. Backhaus s magnificent first beethoven sonata cycle begins here long only available on rare imports, and in new 32bit xr remasters this is unmissable wilhelm backhaus s first beethoven piano sonata cycle, recorded between 1950 and 1953, was one of the first for the long playing record, and may well have been the first of several contemporary. Wilhelm backhaus recorded beethoven s complete piano sonatas in mono for decca in the early 1950s, and with the advent of stereo he began the process anew in 1958. With joy wilhelm backhaus admits to being an enthusiastic fan of the wonderful bechstein grand piano, the pianist wrote in september 1925. In the course of his life he gave more than 4,000 concerts. He recorded the complete piano sonatas and concertos of beethoven and many works of mozart and brahms, and in 1928 he became the first pianist to record the complete etudes of frederic chopin. After the second world war, backhaus recorded the 32 beethoven sonatas twice once in very good mono, and again in wonderful early stereo. Newman, beethoven s pianos versus his piano ideals, journal of.
No doubt rosengarten wanted to capitalise on the new medium and have a complete recording of the beethoven piano sonatas on lp and who better to do it than wilhelm backhaus. Backhaus readings are still widely regarded as among the best recordings pearl 9902 and others of those works. Nov 05, 2018 the backhaus beethoven sonatas recorded19271937, as well as the bach pieces that served as filler for the shellac sets on hmv, have been transferred and remastered by andrew hallifax. Ludwig van beethoven, 32 sonate per pianoforte wilhelm. Beethoven piano sonatas book 1 piano sheet music by ludwig.
At the end of his time at the conservatory, backhaus. Wilhelm backhaus the complete decca recordings out now. Download file pdf beethoven piano sonatas book 1 piano sheet music by. Wilhelm backhaus ludwig van beethoven decca beethoven sonatas. Jan 01, 2002 the veteran beethovenian wilhelm backhaus b. Thank you very much for downloading beethoven sonata ysis. Beethoven, wilhelm backhaus the piano sonatas 1983.
Listeners steeped in recorded beethoven sonata lore will recognize its singular sonority from some of wilhelm backhaus 1960svintage beethoven releases. Ludwig van beethoven, 32 sonate per pianoforte wilhelm backhaus. Beethoven, wilhelm backhaus complete piano sonatas. Wilhelm backhaus ludwig van beethoven decca beethoven. Wilhelm backhaus, born 1884 in leipzig, studied with eugen dalbert in frankfurt. For general information on wilhelm backhaus complete recording of all beethoven piano sonatas see the post beethoven. Beethoven, wilhelm backhaus the piano sonatas 1983, vinyl. Wilhelm kempffs clipped phrasing and intimate dimensions, and youll get a.
Wilhelm backhaus 26 march 1884 5 july 1969 was a german pianist and pedagogue. Backhaus plays beethoven sonata n 23 appassionata youtube. It should be remembered that hmv originally approached backhaus to make the. Reckendorf, backhaus played music from the fairydoll by josef bayer, which was popular in leipzig at the time. An impressed reckendorf dispensed with rudimentary lessons and asked the boy to prepare one of the small beethoven sonatas for his next lesson. Sep 11, 2019 the first set of three with legendary decca recordings of the beethoven piano sonatas played by wilhelm backhaus. Ludwig van beethoven, wilhelm backhaus wilhelm backhaus beethoven the piano sonatas music. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of mozart, beethoven. Dec, 2019 our ongoing survey of piano sonatas continues with a bonus all beethoven post featuring german pianist wilhelm backhaus.
Backhaus had a long career on the concert stage and in the recording studio. Islamey, while backhauss calling card was both books of paganini variations by. The piano sonatas by wilhelm backhaus year of production 1992. Wilhelm backhaus, like elgar, was quick to recognize the importance of the gramophone and in 1909 he was the first to record a piano concerto a heavily abridged version of griegs a minor. Backhaus recorded this sonata in 1969 notes on the movements i. And this excerpt from the third movement of beethovens piano sonata opus. His complete cycle of beethoven sonatas occupied him throughout the 1950s and 1960s and is regarded by many as his greatest achievement, and the cycle is justly recognized as one of the great. Im no art historian, but it strikes me that if some beethoven pianists focus on the most personal elements of the sonatas e. His complete cycle of beethoven sonatas occupied him throughout the 1950s and 1960s and is regarded by many as his greatest achievement, and the cycle is justly recognised as one of the great.
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