Clementi - The Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67717
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 1st September 2008
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.11 no.1Piano Sonatas (3), op.9
Piano Sonatas (3), op.10
Piano Sonatas (4), op.12
Artists
Howard Shelley (piano)Works
Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.11 no.1Piano Sonatas (3), op.9
Piano Sonatas (3), op.10
Piano Sonatas (4), op.12
Artists
Howard Shelley (piano)About
After the somewhat frivolous delights of Volume 1, Volume 2 displays Clementi in more serious and weighty form. The selection recorded here, particularly the Op.12 sonatas, is of pieces that aim for depths of expression seldom encountered in the composer’s earlier music.
Muzio Clementi was for much of his long career one of the most famous musicians in Europe. Around the turn of the nineteenth century his public esteem was probably second only to that of Haydn, and, a decade or so later, Beethoven. But unlike the reputations of these other two, Clementi’s fame as a musician rested almost solely upon his exploits, as both player and composer, at a single instrument, the piano. And the vast majority of his compositions are sonatas for that instrument.
This is a fascinating body of work which spans European musical life from Scarlatti to Chopin.
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