Maurizio Zaccaria - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 11, Op. 22 & Other Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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may show a rather conservative attitude toward composition and pianistic language (perhaps the reason why they remained unpublished), it is in the Sonatas, Op. 10 that we sense Beethoven’s urge as a young composer to push the boundaries of already old-fashioned archetypes – in the use of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 Stennheiser microphones.

TRACKLIST

1. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: I. Allegro con brio
2. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: II. Adagio con molto espressione
3. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: III. Menuetto
4. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: IV. Rondo. Allegretto
5. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 1 in G Minor
6. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 2 in C Major
7. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 3 in D Major
8. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 4 in A Major
9. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 5 in C Minor
10. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 6 in G Major
11. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 7 in C Major
12. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 8 in C Major
13. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 9 in A Minor
14. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 10 in A Major
15. Maurizio Zaccaria - Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 11 in B-Flat Major
16. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in F Major, WoO 50: I. (Allegro)
17. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in F Major, WoO 50: I. Menuet. Andante
18. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in C Major, WoO 51: I. Allegro
19. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in C Major, WoO 51: II. Adagio
20. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5 No. 1: I. Moderato
21. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5 No. 1: II. Romance
22. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5 No. 2: I. Allegro assai
23. Maurizio Zaccaria - Piano Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5 No. 2: II. Rondo. Allegro



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