Adam Golka - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Adam Golkas third album for FHR begins a wonderful journey in which he records all of Beethovens 32 Piano Sonatas. This first volume, released in Beethovens 250th anniversary year, includes one of the composers most celebrated works, the Pathétique Sonata in C minor, alongside the contrasting Sonatas, Op. 10. All four sonatas were written 1796-98. Since first self-presenting and performing Beethovens 32 Piano Sonatas at the age of 18, Adam Golka has immersed himself in studying the masters works. He has studied Beethoven under the guidance of masters such as Leon Fleisher, Alfred Brendel, Sir András Schiff, Murray Perahia, and Ferenc Rados. In 2011, Adam performed a cycle of all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Lubbock Symphony, with his brother Tomasz at the baton, and last summer, he made his San Francisco Symphony début at the Stern Grove Festival in Beethovens Fourth Piano Concerto. He will celebrate Beethovens 250th birthday in 2020 by playing the whole cycle of Beethovens 32 Piano Sonatas in multiple cities, which includes a self-produced video series named 32@32, made in collaboration with filmmaker Zac Nicholson and designed to be part of the concert experience.

Tracklist:
1. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio (08:57)
2. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile (05:44)
3. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": III. Rondo - Allegro (04:42)
4. Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1 "Little Pathétique": I. Allegro molto e con brio (05:34)
5. Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1 "Little Pathétique": II. Adagio molto (08:26)
6. Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1 "Little Pathétique": III. Finale - Prestissimo (03:54)
7. Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2: I. Allegro (08:09)
8. Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2: II. Allegretto (03:43)
9. Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2: III. Presto (04:05)
10. Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3: I. Presto (07:03)
11. Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3: II. Largo e mesto (09:33)
12. Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3: III. Menuet - Allegro (02:38)
13. Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3: IV. Rondo - Allegro (03:59)


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