Rudolf Buchbinder - Beethoven The Essential Piano Sonatas (2023)

Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is an important specialist in core Austro-Germanic repertory, bringing precision and taste to music from Haydn to Brahms. He was a pioneering champion of Haydn's keyboard music, recording that composer's complete piano sonatas in the 1970s. Buchbinder was born in Litomerice, Czechoslovakia, on December 1, 1946, as the region's ethnically German inhabitants were being expelled by order of the Czech government. He grew up in Austria and attended the Vienna Academy of Music, where he studied with Bruno Seidlhofer. Something of a prodigy, Buchbinder took a piano trio prize at the Munich International Festival in 1961 and earned a Dinu Lipatti Medal the following year.
Tracklist
01. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
02. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
03. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": III. Rondo. Allegro
04. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
05. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": II. Allegretto
06. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato
07. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest": I. Largo - Allegro
08. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest": II. Adagio
09. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest": III. Allegretto
10. Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a "Les Adieux": I. Das Lebewohl. Adagio - Allegro
11. Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a "Les Adieux": II. Abwesenheit. Andante espressivo
12. Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-Flat Major, Op. 81a "Les Adieux": III. Das Wiedersehen. Vivacissimamente
13. Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale": I. Allegro
14. Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale": II. Andante
15. Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
16. Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale": IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
17. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": I. Allegro con brio
18. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
19. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
20. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": I. Allegro assai
21. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": II. Andante con moto
22. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": III. Allegro ma non troppo