Jan Bartoš – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jan Bartoš – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:08:24 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Supraphon a.s.

Launching his Mozart debut recorded with the Czech Philharmonic and Jiří Bělohlávek (Supraphon 2017), Jan Bartoš drew to himself a lot of critical attention on an international scale. Those who reviewed the album especially appreciated his rare ability to combine thorough understanding both of the musical architecture and the deep emotionality of the works (a quality possessed also by the pianist’s tutors Ivan Moravec and Alfred Brendel). From the early “Haydn-like” Sonata No. 3 in C major to the highly dramatic “Appassionata” to the transcendent last Sonata No. 32 in C minor, which gives an impression of the composer parting with this world, the pianist facilitates to us the amazing integrity and colourfulness of Beethoven’s piano work. During the thirty years separating his first and last piano opus, the composer tried out numberless experiments, and yet some crucial themes come up again and again; the imprint of his unique musical DNA is discernible from his very first opuses. In the hands of Jan Bartoš, Beethoven whispers, sings and thunders. We encounter a world full of contrasts, an image whose colours remain impressed in our memory for a long time.

Tracklist:

1-01. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2: I. Allegro con brio (10:24)
1-02. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2: II. Adagio (07:52)
1-03. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2: III. Scherzo. Allegro (03:25)
1-04. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2: IV. Allegro assai (05:44)
1-05. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14: I. Allegro (06:39)
1-06. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14: II. Allegretto (03:56)
1-07. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14: III. Rondo. Allegro comodo (03:36)
1-08. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57: I. Allegro assai (10:16)
1-09. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57: II. Andante con moto (06:10)
1-10. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57: III. Allegro ma non troppo – Presto (08:40)
2-11. Jan Bartoš – 32 Piano Variations on an Original Theme, WoO 80 (11:21)
2-12. Jan Bartoš – 6 Bagatells, Op. 126: No. 1, Andante con moto (03:55)
2-13. Jan Bartoš – 6 Bagatells, Op. 126: No. 2, Allegro (02:54)
2-14. Jan Bartoš – 6 Bagatells, Op. 126: No. 3, Andante cantabile e grazioso (02:52)
2-15. Jan Bartoš – 6 Bagatells, Op. 126: No. 4, Presto (04:03)
2-16. Jan Bartoš – 6 Bagatells, Op. 126: No. 5, Quasi allegretto (02:21)
2-17. Jan Bartoš – 6 Bagatells, Op. 126: No. 6, Presto – Andante amabile e con moto (05:04)
2-18. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso. Allegro con brio ed appassionato (09:47)
2-19. Jan Bartoš – Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile (19:17)

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