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中文名称：贝多芬钢琴奏鸣曲全集英文名称：Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas [BOX SET][10CD]资源类型：APE发行时间：1996年11月19日专辑歌手：Alfred Brendel 阿尔弗雷德·布伦德尔地区：美国简介：专辑介绍:Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenPerformer: Alfred BrendelAudio CD (November 19, 1996)Number of Discs: 10Format: Box setLabel: PhilipsPHILIPS CDA-6172You have to have the Beethoven piano sonatas in your collection. You really do. Beethovens nine symphonies get the attention, and deservedly so, for radically changing music forever, for elevating musical expression beyond the constraints of the Classical style. Onward. Upward. Beethoven created the first truly transcendent music, radical new harmonies and forms, music where emotional expression takes primacy over form. But if the symphonies were the extravagant public face of this transformation, the 32 piano sonatas, standing as a single body of work, are the private, personal works that demonstrate Beethovens development and foreshadow the radical and sublime innovations in form and harmonic structure that would be devoured by generations of aficionados of the symphonies. So the question isnt whether or not to include the Beethoven piano sonatas in your collection, but rather which collection. Ill give my five stars the Brendel. If you are listening to a musical performance for the purposes of enjoying a virtuostic performance, you want the musician to feel free to interpret, to snub the composers purpose and motivation in the name of passion and talent. Thats precisely what you want if you are listening to Liszts Waltzes or Rachmaninoffs Preludes for example. No disrespect. (I love Liszts Waltzes but find I cant quite dance to them) But if you are listening to music to appreciate brilliant composition, then you want someone more faithful than ostentatious. Thats certainly what you want in your complete collection of Beethovens piano sonatas. (Why? Because Beethoven was a master composer, greater than any before or after by several orders of magnitude. Weve bee