Album: Martin Roscoe, Beethoven Piano Sonatas: Pathétique (Deux-Elles)

Andy Gill
Friday 11 June 2010 00:00 BST
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Beethoven's piano sonatas remain one of music's most popular milestones – Anne Koscielny recently became the latest recitalist to complete the 32-sonata cycle – and now the redoubtable Martin Roscoe embarks on a recorded version that will take up the next four or five years of his life, its unique selling points being his inclusion of the Kurfürstensonaten juvenilia (making a total of 35), and his employment of Barry Cooper's definitive new edition of the score.

The first volume features the ever popular Pathétique, alongside the three Opus 10 sonatas of equivalent placid melancholy, all delivered with Roscoe's typically scrupulous attention to detail and emotional truth.

DOWNLOAD THIS Piano Sonata in C minor Op 13 Pathetique; Piano Sonata in D Op 10 No 3

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