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# Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

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Paul Lewis performed all the Beethoven piano sonatas on tour in the USA and Europe between the 2005 and 2007 seasons, in parallel with his complete recording of the cycle for Harmonia Mundi. His interpretation of the Lizst sonata was distinguished by the prestigious Edison Award, while his recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas received two Gramophone Awards in 2008 (Recording of the year and Best Instrumental Recording).

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Tatum, Taylor and Beethoven, O My! Or the creative improv of the sonatas.
  

*by G***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2013*

My musical soul has been largely created in response to improvised music. I grew up listening to lots of classical but as a teen and adult I have been largely drawn to the broad spectrum of creative improvised musics: blues, jazz and various world musics.Recently, I started to listen to a teaching company course on the Sonatas of Beethoven and stopped until I became more familiar with the music. I then entered a shadow war of opinion on who has performed the best Sonata cycle and ended up purchasing the Lewis because of what I had read.In the final analysis, such arguments about the quality of different pianists performing the sonatas is like arguments about translations of Homer or Dostoevsky. Largely silly. Homer, Dostoevsky and Beethoven either speak to you or they don't. Look for the version that resonates with your experience the most and let learned opinion be damned.Having said that, Lewis strikes me as a superb choice. This is a version that is done with great care. The recording has great clarity which seems to me to be essential for an appreciation of how Lewis plays. I believe I can hear how carefully he has thought about these pieces. He seems to emphasize individual notes or chords within a storm of notes or in those incredibly rapid little phrases this music offers to abundance. Lewis seems to have the ability to independently play each finger in terms of the overall dynamics of the music.The dynamics is one of the ways in which I think that Beethoven was probably revolutionary. Composers prior to him seem so limited in comparison. He thunders, he whispers, he rages, he caresses the piano. One of the points in the Teaching Company course was that Beethoven's playing inspired a revolution in the making of pianos. He literally beat the pianos of his time to death in playing his music. I am fairly sure that not a few fell victim to some of the sonatas.And then there are the musical ideas. This is where my review title comes in. Beethoven is obviously very very different than either Art Tatum or Cecil Taylor.  But they all share the quality of almost having too much to say, they think too fast, they are already creating the next phrase as they play the current one.Beethoven was a noted improvisor and for anyone who has listened to a lot of improvisatory music (me, me!), that is obvious from the sonatas.I hear a phrase, then a variation with some grace notes, then a change of rhythm, then that leads to a new phrase and then back with new harmony and then on to the next idea.  I am not suggesting that the sonatas were not carefully thought out, I am suggesting that their raw materials come out of Beethoven's improvisatory experience.In any case, if you have any curiosity about Beethoven and the sonatas, I can heartily recommend Lewis as your point of entry. These are works of great beauty and intelligence and soul. As I listen to them, I realized they are the fertile ground on which much of the piano music that came later was drawn from. If your taste in music runs the gamut from Chopin to Cecil Taylor, from Tatum to Scriabin, then you are in for a treat. My thanks to Paul Lewis for edumucating me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wonderful details
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2023*

I'm used to these sonatas. These performances are among the slowest in tempo, which can be misleading.But the sluggish pace allows Mr. Lewis to work out wonderful details, without loosing the overall dynamics

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The best of the best? Oh that way lies madness. Very fine, and gorgeous sound.
  

*by 3***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2015*

Very intense, forward, impressive playing here. I'm now officially swamped by Beethoven piano sonata sets and individual albums by so many great names that it seems premature of me to say Lewis belongs among them. What if we just compare him to what I was listening to earlier today while sitting here slaving away on various writing projects, with my really fine vintage hifi pouring the sounds of Beethoven into my ears? That was Pollini. There's decidedly more drama here. You know, maybe one of the earlier reviewers is right. What really sells this box set is the great Harmonia Mundi recording. It captures Lewis's fluid tone very nicely. And yes, he is intense. I feel like he's often about to teeter over into bombast--oh no, it's That Beethoven!--but then hangs back. Lewis does have a sense of how to deploy the drama, the underlying unease, the bursts of sunlight and starlight. Oh come on, you've got to like this. Is it the "one Beethoven to have if you're having only one?" I doubt that. I don't think I'd pick it over Pollini, or over Gulda (no matter which versions), but I think many would be very happy with this as their only traversal. To these uneducated ears it has the "ring of truth." Yes, and very important: Lewis's performances are entertaining. Did we forget that? Once upon a time, Beethoven was Big Entertainment, and Lewis seems to know it.

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