!±8± Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

Featuring 11 Hybrid SACDs and includes not only the well-known 32 sonatas, but all of the early ipano sonatas that remained unnumbered as well as the only sonata that Beethoven wrote for four hands. A 144 page full color hardcover book provides an essay on The Mind of Beethoven, written by Takacs.

Embarking on a life-long project, pianist Peter Takacs presents all of the composer's sonatas for the first time in one package. When asked why he initiated this ambitious project, Takacs commented, 'I have lived with these magnificent works, as performer and teacher for many years. I find in them a record of a great composer's development from his youth as a brilliant virtuoso to the peaks of musical maturity. One recurrent aspect of these sonatas is their strikingly modern relevance as universal statements about the human condition - about struggle and suffering, healing and transcendence. In them one gleans a mind intent on surprising and delighting the listener, pushing the envelope of accepted rules, and being inspired by nature both in its pastoral serenity and its turbulence (reflecting inner turmoil as well).'