Kempff Beethoven Sonatas Review

Kempff also recorded nearly all of the 32 for german polydor between the late 1920s and early war years along with sundry short pieces and all but one of the concertos.

Kempff beethoven sonatas review. Unlimited access to news features blogs awards and artist content. Having been totally sold on kempff s 1960s dgg stereo recordings of the beethoven sonatas as a teenager i ve admired them ever since. Here lewis minimizes the off kilter effect of beethoven s intentionally de synchronized hands that wilhelm kempff assertively projects and with which richard goode imaginatively toys. I gor levit made his debut on disc in 2013 with beethoven sonatas and not just any group of sonatas but the final five opp 101 106 109 110 and 111 which rank among the greatest works ever.

Free access to 5 subscriber only reviews per month. The central slow movement s left hand staccato phrases come off as static blips while lewis envelops much of the finale in a haze of underarticulated overpedaled arcs. Many collectors know wilhelm kempff s beethoven sonatas through his respective mono and stereo lp era cycles. I have to admit that i didn t know that he had previously issued a mono set in the 1950s.