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Ludwig van Beethoven
Complete Piano Sonatas, vol. 1
IGOR TCHETUEV

CM 0042005
 
Sonata No.7 in D major (op.10/3)
Dedicated to Countess von Browne
1   Presto [6:51]
2   Largo e mesto [10:10]
3   Menuetto [2:36]
Listen audioclip (2.3Mb)
4   Rondo [3:48]
       
Sonata No.23 in F minor (‘Appassionata’, op.57)
Dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick
5   Allegro assai [10:07]
6   Andante con moto [6:59]
Listen audioclip (6.1Mb)
7   Allegro ma non troppo [7:58]  
         
Sonata No.26 in E flat major.
(‘Das Lebewohl, Abwesenheit und Wiedersehn’, op.81a) Dedicated to Archduke Rudolph
8   Adagio. Allegro [6:53]
9   Andante espressivo [3:53]
10   Vivacissimamente [6:03]
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Total time [62:47]

Text of the booklet is available in English, German, and Russian.

 

 

Disc reviews:
SA-CD.net
"Piano news" magazin für klavier und flügel (in German)
"Diapason" magazine (in French)
"Opus Haute Définition" e-magazine (in French)
"neue musikzeitung" (in German)
"Audiophile Audition"
allmusic.com

 

Igor Tchetuev plays a Fazioli grand piano No. 2280912

 

Recording Details

Microphones - Neumann km130
DPA (B & K) 4006
DPA (B & K) 4011

SCHOEPS mk2S
SCHOEPS mk41

All the microphone buffer amplifiers and pre-amplifiers are Polyhymnia International B.V. custom built.

DSD analogue to digital converter - Meitner design by EMM Labs.

Recording, editing and mixing on Pyramix system by Merging Technologies.

 

Recording Producer - Michael Serebryanyi
Balance Engineer - Erdo Groot
Recording Engineer - Roger de Schot
Editor - Carl Schuurbiers

 

(P)&(C) Essential Music, #16b-2, Volokolamskoye shosse,
Moscow, 125080, Russia.

DDD

Recorded:
8-10.09.2005, "Manege" Hall of the Moscow Theatre "School of Dramatic Art", Moscow, Russia

 


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