Sonatas In G Major And G Minor Op. 49, Nos. 1 And 2

Nos. 16-32-The entire corpus of Beethoven's piano sonatas is contained in this two-volume work - 32 sonatas in all. Volume 2 contains the seventeen sonatas from Beethoven's second and third periods including the popular Waldstein Appassionata and Hammerklavier. Nos. 16-32. Schenker edition.

Description The entire corpus of Beethoven's piano sonatas is contained in this two-volume work - 32 sonatas in all. Volume 2 contains the seventeen sonatas from Beethoven's second and third periods, including the popular Waldstein, Appassionata, and Hammerklavier. Nos. 16-32. Schenker edition. Songlist Sonata No. 16 In G Major, Op. 31, No. 1 Sonata No. 17 In D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 Sonata No. 18 In E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 Sonata No. 19 In G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1 Sonata No. 20, In G Major, Op. 49, No. 2 Sonata No. 21 In C Major, Op. 53 Sonata No. 22 In F Major, Op. 54 Sonata No. 23 In A-flat Major, Op. 57 Sonata No. 24 In F-sharp Major, Op. 78 Sonata No. 25 In G Major, Op. 79 Sonata No. 26 In E-flat Major, Op. 81 Sonata No. 28 In A Major, Op. 101 Sonata No. 29 In B-flat Major, Op. 106 Sonata No. 30 In E Major, Op. 109 Sonata No. 31 In A-flat Major, Op. 110 Sonata No.27 In E Minor Op.90 Sonata No.32 In C Minor Op.111

F minor A major C major-Bärenreiter continues its Urtext edition of the complete Beethoven Piano sonatas. They begin with the frequently played Op.2 Sonatas (Nos. 1-3) (BA10859) which stem from his early yet mature oeuvre when he was developing an independent style from the legacy of Mozart and Haydn. They then proceed to the lyrical D major Sonata Op.28 (BA11814) from his middle period (nicknamed ?Pastorale? by the publisher of the original edition) and finally to the Sonata Op.101 (BA11811) Beethoven?s first sonata specifically intended for the ?hammerklavier? and the one that introduced his esoteric late style to the Piano sonatas.The acclaimedBeethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar has consulted every known source for these critical Urtext performing editions. In addition he has analysed various copies of the prints published during Beethoven?s lifetime. The results of his accurate research are presented in a meticulously edited musical text at the cutting edge of scholarship together with a detailed Critical Commentary.All volumes stand out in terms of their elegant and well-presented layout. Special emphasis has been placed on optimum page-turns and on the consideration of the flow of the music. The highly informative Introductions on the genesis and significance of the works are supplemented by valuable notes on historical performance practice.New critical performing editions at the cutting edge of scholarship.Optimum page-turns.Introductions with valuable notes on historical performance practice (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentaries (Eng).

Piano Sonata D major K. 284 (205b) Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold The Sonata in D major is the last of the Six Sonatas K. 279-284 that Mozart had in his luggage when he set off for Paris in September 1777. He had already successfully performed this music in Munich, Augsburg and Mannheim, a fact he proudly told his father back at home. He gave the works particularly rich dynamic markings and also found unusual solutions concerning their formal aspect, for instance having a slow Rondeau en Polonaise as the middle movement of the Sonata in D major. The six sonatas, which were previously only published together in the complete volumes (HN 1 and 3), are now all available as single editions with new prefaces. Mozart dedicated this Sonata to a Freiherr Thaddäus von Dürnitz - which is why it has often been called the Dürnitz-Sonata. It is undoubtedly the best, the most brilliant and the most technically demanding of these six early Sonatas. Understandably, Mozart retained a special affection for it and continued to perform it himself. It was this Sonata of which he said that it sounded incomparable on Stein's new fortepianos. FIRST MOVEMENT A first version of the beginning of the first movement, written on one and a half pages, was cancelled by Mozart. On the same page, he started anew to write the final version underneath. The thematic material of this opening movement (and to a lesser degree also that of the following movements) is laid out on a more ample, nearly orchestral scale, a departure from the intimacy of the early sonatas. The tremolo effect in measures 13-16 and the unison announcements of the first subject read very much like a piano reduction of an orchestral tutti. The second subject, a supple melodic line, unaccompanied in its opening bar, incorporates a descending chain of first inversions a favourite harmonic formula of the baroque and classical periods. (There are analogous passages in the subsidiary themes in Gluck's overture Iphigénie en Tauride and the first movements of J. S. Bach's Italian Concert). This functions as a solo passage in contrast to the ensuing tutti entries in m.30. The development moves through a circle of minor keys before the recapitulation begins in measure 72. SECOND MOVEMENT Mozart called the second movement a Rondeau en Polonaise, so it is a dance. The opening four measures from a kind of dialogue (like the theme of the first movement of the preceding G major Sonata), and Mozart subjects them to felicitous counter-statement is heightened by Mozart's meticulous dynamic markings. THIRD MOVEMENT The last movement of the Sonata is a pianistically rewarding, cheerful set of variations, which, up to the adagio variation, has the character of a gavotte. It shows Mozart's special gift for writing variations at its most brilliant. The superficial impression of a diffuse form does not stand up to a closer inspection: it would not be at all easy to omit one of the twelve variations, or to add an extra one. The adagio variation is on special interest to Mozart scholars, for it gives us some insights into his concept of impromptu ornamentation. The autograph is only modestly ornamented, and Mozart presumably embellished it in performance as his fancy dictated. But a richly ornamented version survived in the first edition, published during Mozart's lifetime, and undoubtedly this embellished version is Mozart's own work. Who else could embellish in such an ingenious way? It illuminates Mozart's ideas on ornamentation in general and in particular. Paul and Eva-Badura-Skoda

for Flute and Basso continuo nos. 7 - 12-Urtext edition of Marcello: 12 Sonatas for Treble Recorder and Continuo - Volume 2 (Sonatas 7-12):Sonata VII in Bb MajorSonata VIII in D MinorSOnata IX in C MajorSonata X in A MinorSonata XI in G MinorSonata XII in F Major