BaL 19.03.16 - Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor Op. 13 "Sonata Pathétique"

[Don Petter]

I can't find anyone who sells this. Could you give a link?

Easy enough - Here you go:

https://www.pristineclassical.com/pakm019-cd.html

Available as CD, also 16-bit FLAC or mp3 downloads.

[Alison]

Have you listened to all 142 versions, Alison?

It's just a hunch. (I did pick out the Storgards Sibelius 1 IIMSS!)

[verismissimo]

I'm fond of William Murdoch's Pathetique, the earliest recording I have of it - from 1926.

It's nla, I suppose, but was put out with a spiffing Archduke Trio with Albert Sammons and WH Squire from the same year. He's such a natural pianist, it seems to me. Originally from Bendigo.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm fond of William Murdoch's Pathetique, the earliest recording I have of it - from 1926.

It's nla, I suppose, but was put out with a spiffing Archduke Trio with Albert Sammons and WH Squire from the same year. He's such a natural pianist, it seems to me. Originally from Bendigo.

Available-ish (and with an Appassionata thrown in, too!):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00000I9VQ

[BBMmk2]

Oh my! I don't suppose all will be mentioned! :) My favourite, Emil Gilels

[rauschwerk]

Since my last post I have remembered I have also Solomon. Startled to discover that he takes more than 6 minutes over the Adagio, while Kempff (1953-6) takes just over 4. I prefer a tempo at Kempff's end of the scale (adagio crotchets not adagio quavers). Kempff also gets better sound.

[BBMmk2]

I also have Danny Barrowboy's first EMI recording!

[Nick Armstrong]

Danny Barrowboy

[Barbirollians]

I don't envy the reviewer - like most forumites I imagine I have quite a few recordings of this piece - my favourite probably being Brendel's 1970s version as it was the first I owned and played the LP coupled as so often with the Moonlight and Appassionata into scratchy oblivion .

Gilels, Solomon and Barenboim EMI all excellent too .

[BBMmk2]

I have to say, that was Mrs.BBM's idea! :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This was one of the works I played in my teacher's LRAM exam in the 1970s. I feel as though I know it well.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This was one of the works I played in my teacher's LRAM exam in the 1970s. I feel as though I know it well.

- I rather think that, after a third of a century listening to students practising the slow movement for exams (getting page one right and then ... ) it speaks volumes for the work that I still look forward to hearing it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

- I rather think that, after a third of a century listening to students practising the slow movement for exams (getting page one right and then ... ) it speaks volumes for the work that I still look forward to hearing it.

Indeed. It's the same with the "Moonlight".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Indeed. It's the same with the "Moonlight".

- if anything the potential for disaster there is even greater: starting at Bar 2, for one thing!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

- if anything the potential for disaster there is even greater: starting at Bar 2, for one thing!

Though perhaps bar 2 of the slow movement of Sonata Pathétique is hazardous too - the 5th semiquaver can really stick out and sound as though it's part of the melody line.