Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 21 and 30 - Tipo (1986)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonatas

No. 3 Op. 2 No. 3 in C Major

No. 21 Op. 53 "Waldstein" in C Major

No. 30 Op. 109 in E Major

Maria Tipo

EMI 2706641 - 1986

Our beloved Neapolitan virtuoso, who turned 80 a few weeks ago, has approached Beethoven's musical milestones far from regularly in her long and bright career. I certainly remember a Concerto No. 4 in 1994 in Florence, when her delivery of the mysterious cadenza in the Andante left me mesmerized, as if she had suddenly switched from Beethoven to the Mikrokosmos.

A few years earlier, she recorded this beautiful album in Paris. Combining the early virtuosic 3rd Sonata with a middle one (the stunning "Waldstein") and an absolute masterpiece, from the late period, the first of the last three sublime meditations on the human soul, the empyrean Op. 109.

Tipo aptly adjusts her style to each of the three sonatas, and nearly moves us to tears in the first bars of No. 30.

Digital Recording.

LP rip.

1 Sonata per file.

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