Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Mari Kodama

• 1 I. Allegro 03:55
• 2 II. Adagio 04:45
• 3 III. Menuetto: Allegretto 04:03
• 4 IV. Prestissimo 04:57
• 5 I. Allegro vivace 06:52
• 6 II. Largo appassionato 06:19
• 7 III. Scherzo: Allegretto - Trio 03:02
• 8 IV. Rondo: Grazioso 07:02
• 9 I. Allegro con brio 10:19
• 10 II. Adagio 07:06
• 11 III. Scherzo: Allegro - Trio 03:16
• 12 IV. Allegro assai 05:30
• Total Runtime 01:07:06

Info for Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3

Pianist Mari Kodama performs Beethoven's first, second and third Piano Sonatas.

Every development of a musical genre has its own point of departure. In Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonatas, this consists of the three Sonatas Op. 2, with which he immediately created an exclamation mark. As Beethoven’s first works in this genre, they must naturally undergo an artistic comparison with the contributions made by his near contemporaries Mozart and Haydn. And they must not shrink from this. After all, in these works already, Beethoven took the Classical form of the piano sonata to unprecedented heights. The listener senses his endeavours to set new standards for the genre. Consequently, the Sonatas Op. 2 are the interface between tradition and the new “awakening”, the hinge, as it were, between old and new. Because apart from being rooted in the tradition of Haydn and Mozart, as far as composition is concerned, Beethoven forces his way with his three sonatas into the 19th century, in a manner that is impossible to ignore.

'Young Japanese pianist Mari Kodama continues her recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas with this issue of the three of Op. 2. Already she has recorded three albums for Pentatone containing nine other sonatas. Excellent performances all, and very well recorded with larger than life sound.' (classicalcdreview.com)

Mari Kodama, Piano

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