Tobias Koch
In Search of New Paths, Beethoven
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085533916
- Catalog number AVI 8553391
- Release date 03 September 2021
About the album
In Search of new paths
“This recording of eleven Beethoven sonatas was made by Südwestrundfunk during several recitals entitled Beethoven – in search of new paths, which I had the honour of giving within the framework of the long-established Bad Krozingen Castle Concert Series. These sonatas were written in short succession from 1797 to 1802: one practically led to the next. It was the same period in which Beethoven is said to have revealed to a friend that he was “dissatisfied with his previous works” and intended to “embark on a new path”. Indeed, in those years, the composer seems to have stepped on the turbo accelerator, innovating sonata form in a series of energetically concentrated experiments.
Whenever we, as artists, reconsider our approach, new horizons are opened. Starting with a massive, powerful thunderclap at the beginning of the Grande Sonate pathétique – his first highlight in the genre – Beethoven’s variegated compendium of unique sonatas rapidly attained previously unimagined dimensions with the polymorph metastructures of the Opus 31 sonata trilogy. That tempestuous, late 18th-century quest-hunt produces tensions which I attempt to take as a point of departure to explore new paths and to embark on adventures of interpretation. My explorations begin “behind the notes”. Beethoven’s musical propositions are often bold, unconventional, and extreme, something which we often tend to overlook and smooth out with today’s knowledge of all that was to come. I not only resorted to the new Beethoven editions by Jonathan del Mar based on autograph manuscripts and first printings as a compass in my quest, but I also used Barry Cooper’s detailed, critically enlightened edition, a beacon for our times. ………
(from: the Preword by Tobias Koch, Booklet)
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11Piano Sonata No. 8 c-Moll / in C Minor Op. 13 (1797/99) Pathétique I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio
10:43 -
12Piano Sonata No. 8 c-Moll / in C Minor Op. 13 (1797/99) Pathétique II. Adagio cantabile
05:10 -
13Piano Sonata No. 8 c-Moll / in C Minor Op. 13 (1797/99) Pathétique III. Rondo : Allegro
05:07 -
14Piano Sonata No. 9 E-Dur / in E Major Op. 14 No. 1 (1798/99) I. Allegro
07:20 -
15Piano Sonata No. 9 E-Dur / in E Major Op. 14 No. 1 (1798/99) II. Allegretto
03:44 -
16Piano Sonata No. 9 E-Dur / in E Major Op. 14 No. 1 (1798/99) III. Rondo: Allegro comodo
03:35 -
17Piano Sonata No. 10 G-Dur / in G Major Op. 14 No. 2 (1798/99) I. Allegro
08:24 -
18Piano Sonata No. 10 G-Dur / in G Major Op. 14 No. 2 (1798/99) II. Andante
04:34 -
19Piano Sonata No. 10 G-Dur / in G Major Op. 14 No. 2 (1798/99) III. Scherzo: Allegro assai
04:11 -
110Piano Sonata No. 11 B-Dur / in B Flat Major Op. 22 (1799/1800) I. Allegro con brio
08:13 -
111Piano Sonata No. 11 B-Dur / in B Flat Major Op. 22 (1799/1800) II. Adagio con molta espressione
08:21 -
112Piano Sonata No. 11 B-Dur / in B Flat Major Op. 22 (1799/1800) III. Minuetto
03:54 -
113Piano Sonata No. 11 B-Dur / in B Flat Major Op. 22 (1799/1800) IV. Rondo: Allegretto
06:49 -
21Piano Sonata Quasi una Fantasia No. 12 As-Dur / in A Flat Major Op. 26 I. Andante con variazioni
08:35 -
22Piano Sonata Quasi una Fantasia No. 12 As-Dur / in A Flat Major Op. 26 II. Scherzo
03:23 -
23Piano Sonata Quasi una Fantasia No. 12 As-Dur / in A Flat Major Op. 26 III. Marcia Funebre
05:13 -
24Piano Sonata Quasi una Fantasia No. 12 As-Dur / in A Flat Major Op. 26 IV. Allegro
03:17 -
25Piano Sonata No. 13 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 27 No. 1 I. Andante
06:17 -
26Piano Sonata No. 13 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 27 No. 1 II. Allegro molto e vivace
02:04 -
27Piano Sonata No. 13 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 27 No. 1 III. Adagio con espressione
02:55 -
28Piano Sonata No. 13 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 27 No. 1 IV. Allegro vivace
06:34 -
29Piano Sonata Quasi una Fantasia No. 14 cis-Moll / in C Sharp Minor Op. 27 No. 2 (1801) (Moonlight) I. Adagio sostenuto
03:09 -
210Piano Sonata Quasi una Fantasia No. 14 cis-Moll / in C Sharp Minor Op. 27 No. 2 (1801) (Moonlight) II. Allegretto
02:55 -
211Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major Op. 28 III. Presto
11:22 -
212Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major Op. 28 I. Allegro
05:44 -
213Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major Op. 28 II. Andante
02:30 -
214Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major Op. 28 III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
05:14 -
215Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major Op. 28 IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
05:14 -
31Piano Sonata No. 16 G-Dur / in G Major Op. 31 No. 1 (1801/02) I. Allegro vivace
07:32 -
32Piano Sonata No. 16 G-Dur / in G Major Op. 31 No. 1 (1801/02) II. Adagio grazioso
11:27 -
33Piano Sonata No. 16 G-Dur / in G Major Op. 31 No. 1 (1801/02) III. Rondo Allegretto
07:16 -
34Piano Sonata No. 17 d-Moll / in D Minor Op. 31 No. 2 (1801/02) The Tempest I. Largo – Allegro
08:52 -
35Piano Sonata No. 17 d-Moll / in D Minor Op. 31 No. 2 (1801/02) The Tempest II. Adagio
09:18 -
36Piano Sonata No. 17 d-Moll / in D Minor Op. 31 No. 2 (1801/02) The Tempest III. Allegretto
06:42 -
37Piano Sonata No. 18 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 (1802) The Hunt I. Allegro
09:42 -
38Piano Sonata No. 18 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 (1802) The Hunt II. Scherzo – Allegretto vivace
05:36 -
39Piano Sonata No. 18 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 (1802) The Hunt III. Menuetto – moderato e grazioso
04:31 -
310Piano Sonata No. 18 Es-Dur / in E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 (1802) The Hunt IV. Presto con fuoco
04:49