Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 11, Op. 22 & Other Works Maurizio Zaccaria

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22:
• 1 Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: I. Allegro con brio 05:52:04
• 2 Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: II. Adagio con molto espressione 07:18:28
• 3 Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: III. Menuetto 03:10:07
• 4 Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: IV. Rondo. Allegretto 06:16:45
• Bagatelles, Op. 119:
• 5 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 1 in G Minor 01:55:09
• 6 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 2 in C Major 01:05:57
• 7 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 3 in D Major 01:24:41
• 8 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 4 in A Major 01:18:06
• 9 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 5 in C Minor 01:15:37
• 10 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 6 in G Major 01:50:24
• 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 7 in C Major 01:07:08
• 12 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 8 in C Major 01:10:05
• 13 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 9 in A Minor 35:07
• 14 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 10 in A Major 16:19
• 15 Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 11 in B-Flat Major 02:04:05
• Piano Sonatina in F Major, WoO 50:
• 16 Piano Sonatina in F Major, WoO 50: I. (Allegro) 01:19:13
• 17 Piano Sonatina in F Major, WoO 50: I. Menuet. Andante 35:09
• 18 Piano Sonatina in C Major, WoO 51: I. Allegro 02:23:34
• 19 Piano Sonatina in C Major, WoO 51: II. Adagio 03:01:38
• Piano Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5 No. 1:
• 20 Piano Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5 No. 1: I. Moderato 01:27:36
• 21 Piano Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5 No. 1: II. Romance 01:53:08
• Piano Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5 No. 2:
• 22 Piano Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5 No. 2: I. Allegro assai 01:31:05
• 23 Piano Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5 No. 2: II. Rondo. Allegro 01:53:08
• Total Runtime 02:44:33

Info for Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 11, Op. 22 & Other Works

The two albums OC19040B and OC19041B introduce Beethoven’s more intimate works that appropriately trace his evolution: from the four Sonatinas, WoO 50 and 51, Anh. 5/1, 5/2, composed in the late 1780s or early 1790s and published posthumously; exploring the four sonatas of the first-period (the Three Sonatas, Op. 10 and the Sonata, Op. 22); two sonatas from the middle period (Opp. 78, in two relatively brief movements; and Op. 79, the shortest of the three-movement sonatas); and ending with the late-period’s Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119, revised and published as a set in 1823 but gathering works that span from the 1790s to the early 1820s.

While Beethoven’s very early sonatinas may show a rather conservative attitude toward composition and pianistic language (perhaps the reason why they remained unpublished), it is in the Sonatas, Op. 10 that we sense Beethoven’s urge as a young composer to push the boundaries of already old-fashioned archetypes – in the use of the rondo-sonata form, for example, but also in the quintessentially orchestral writing of the third sonata. And it is in the second half of the Bagatelles, Op. 119, written in 1821-22, that we most perceive Beethoven’s iconoclastic force had he not prematurely left the world only several years later.

The present recording was made by Alessandro Simonetto with a pair of 2-stereo Sennheiser microphones.

Maurizio Zaccaria, piano

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