Beethoven's 13th Piano Sonata "shares two features with its more famous ‘sibling' in C# minor: the title Sonata quasi una fantasia and the alla breve time signature for the first movement. These similarities were conferred by Beethoven. Sadly, there is a third similarity conferred by an overwhelming consensus of the world's pianists: the alla breve tempo markings are almost universally ignored in public performances and recordings! ”
— Brian Chapman
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CD CONTENTS
(Sample downloads 1Mb, being the first minute of each track)
1SCHUBERT: Impromptu in G flat, Op.90 No.3 (sample)
ssssssssssjImpromptu in A flat, Op.142 No.2 (sample)
1MOZART: Fantasia in D minor, K.397 (sample)
ssssssss jMinuet in D, K.355/576b (sample)
1BEETHOVEN: Sonata in G, Op.49 No.2
ssssssssssss1111Allegro ma non troppo (sample)
ssssssssssss1111Tempo di Minuetto (sample)
1BEETHOVEN: Minuet in G, WoO 10 No.2 (sample)
1BEETHOVEN: Sonata quasi una fantasia in E flat, Op.27 No.1
ssssssssssss1111Andante (sample)
ssssssssssss1111Allegro molto e vivace (sample)
ssssssssssss1111Adagio con espressione (sample)
ssssssssssss1111Allegro vivace (sample)
1GRANADOS: The maiden and the nightingale from Goyescas (sample)
1ALBÉNIZ: El Albaicin from Iberia Book III (sample)
1DEBUSSY: Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque (sample)
1DEBUSSY: Footsteps in the snow from Préludes Book I (sample)
1DEBUSSY: The girl with the flaxen hair from Préludes Book I (sample)
1DEBUSSY: The engulfed cathedral from Préludes Book I (sample)
1DEBUSSY: Gardens under rain from Estampes (sample)
The CD booklet contains reproductions of six illustrations (oil on canvas, 76x76 cm) by Lucy Chapman for the works by Granados and Debussy.
Playing time over 79 minutes
BRIAN CHAPMAN — Piano MOVE MCD 426
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