Nikolai Lugansky - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 23 (2022)

For this second volume of Beethoven sonatas, Nikolaï Lugansky goes back in time and selects three milestones in the composer's stylistic evolution: the ‘Moonlight’, the ‘Tempest’ and the ‘Appassionata’. The Master of Bonn gradually broke with the models he had inherited from the codes of Viennese Classicism in order to give free rein to affect, emotion and Romantic gesture. With these three works, Beethoven laid the foundations of a free and humanistic art.

Tracklist:
1. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto (06:20)
2. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": II. Allegretto (02:26)
3. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato (07:55)
4. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": I. Allegro assai (11:10)
5. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": II. Andante con moto (06:51)
6. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto (08:03)
7. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest": I. Largo - Allegro (09:13)
8. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest": II. Adagio (08:31)
9. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest": III. Allegretto (07:34)