011 CD / Ludwig van Beethoven. Piano Sonatas

Ludwig van Beethoven

Klaviersonaten
D-Dur op. 10,3
d-Moll op. 31, 2 „Sturm“
C-Dur op. 53 „Waldstein“
Gerrit Zitterbart, Klavier

EAN/barcode: 4009850001102

Description

"The meticulously prepared releases by the Stuttgart label Tacet deserve attention ... this tells me that Gerrit Zitterbart can rank with the most gifted Beethoven performers of his generation..." (Frankfurter Rundschau)

7 reviews for 011 CD / Ludwig van Beethoven. Piano Sonatas

  1. Radio Bremen

    Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonatas, whose concentrated texture became a model for 19th-century piano music, have already been recorded countless times by innumerable pianists. When a pianist, primarily known and appreciated as a chamber musician, now approaches Beethoven as a solo performer, initial skepticism may arise. But Gerrit Zitterbart, pianist of the Abegg Trio, convinces the skeptics through his intellectually phrased playing, his intelligent structuring and colorful characterization of individual sections, and his ability to approach these oft-played sonatas with a refreshingly unselfconscious perspective.

  2. Audio

    Gerrit Zitterbart, long known “only” as the pianist of the Abegg Trio, has prepared himself superbly for these three sonatas, as popular as they are demanding. His acrobatically agile fingers give the fast movements real drive, and even where they may seem a little rushed or overdriven, the professor from Hanover conjures so many subtleties into the music that it always remains coherent and full of tension. The Tacet engineers captured the sound of a magnificent Bösendorfer grand piano very well.

  3. Hessischer Rundfunk

    The pianist of the next recording has written his own introductory notes for three Beethoven piano sonatas—by the way, with a clever pen. His Beethoven playing makes an outstanding impression. The Bösendorfer Imperial, which indeed sounds magnificent and is positioned at a relatively great distance from the microphones in a church setting, is played here by a pianist whose sense of sound is complemented by a pronounced feeling for form. Not only Beethoven’s early great Sonata in D major, but also the “Storm” and “Waldstein” sonatas are presented by Gerrit Zitterbart with a strong architectural sense of the structural laws of Beethovenian sonata form, phrased with assurance, yet also with unmistakable emotional engagement, with fire and temperament. All dynamic markings of Beethoven’s untamed musical furor are meticulously executed, and Zitterbart possesses a quality increasingly rare today, one that must underlie all music-making: calmness, patience for slowness, concentration on musical pauses or moments of stillness. Added to this is an unfailingly calm breath control, rhythmically clear articulation of musical progressions, and clarity in all voice-leading details.

  4. Cone (Wien)

    Zitterbart’s playing is a model of meticulous elaboration with assured tempi. Moreover, his touch is nuanced and just as colorfully expressive as Beethoven demanded.

  5. Musik und Theater

    A hardly known pianist who manages to captivate with familiar works does not come along often. Gerrit Zitterbart shows that it is possible. … enchanting tonal magic … This sensuousness of sound is appealing; it highlights expressive contrasts and clarifies structures; occasionally it leads to extreme contrasts, as in the first movement of Op. 30/2. In this way, the music gains force where needed, or a pulsating depth, as in the slow movements.

  6. Frankfurter Rundschau

    Die sorgfältig betreuten Veröffentlichungen des Stuttgarter Labels Tacet verdienen Aufmerksamkeit. … Zitterbart kann schon nach diesem Eindruck zu den begabtesten Beethovenspielern seiner Generation gezählt werden…“

  7. Hifi Vision

    … and, together with the excellent, already Tacet-typical sound quality of this CD, provides genuine enjoyment.

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