Baptiste Lopez

Maude Gratton, Baptiste Lopez – Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas No. 3, No. 7 & No. 10 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:19 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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With these three sonatas for piano and violin, Baptiste Lopez and Maude Gratton give us an overview of fifteen years in Beethoven’s life; the joie de vivre of the impetuous young composer, still strongly influenced by Classical forms, gradually gives way to a violent aesthetic break, the eccentricity of which was decried by contemporary critics. If, in Beethoven’s view, music confronts humanity with the difficulties of our condition, it also enables us to overcome them; the composer himself transcended his battle against deafness by finding in it the profundity of a creative force.

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