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Piano Sonata No. 29 In B Flat Major, Op. 106 -"Hammerklavier"

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唱片导赏：12 January 2018 (Toronto, ON) - It takes near-superhuman powers for a musician to achieve the status of living legend. Murray Perahia has done so with performances that draw listeners deep into the drama, the emotional ebb and flow, and the spiritual heart of his instrument’s core repertoire. The 70-year-old American artist’s latest album couples two monuments to Beethoven’s ground-breaking genius, the mighty “Hammerklavier” and sublime “Moonlight” sonatas, radical works that span a vast emotional universe. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas is set for international release on February 9 and is available for pre-order now via Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Perahia’s visionary recordings represent remarkable new benchmarks of Beethoven interpretation. Pre-order Beethoven: Piano Sonatas HERE.

Piano Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 -"Moonlight"

Murray Perahia was in his mid-twenties when he first explored Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”. While the work’s enormous technical and physical challenges fell within his grasp, its profound musical demands eluded him. He quietly dropped the “Hammerklavier” from his repertoire, recognizing that he would need time to fathom its cosmic depths. Over four decades passed before he felt ready to program the piece in recital. Perahia finally revisited the “Hammerklavier” three summers ago, working on the score for months and testing ideas of interpretation in fine detail. “I started playing the ‘Hammerklavier’ in a few places,” he recalls. “The more I played it, the more I began to think, ‘Yeah – maybe I’m ready to set down some thoughts about it’.”

The New York Times, after a performance in May of 2016, declared that the wait for Perahia’s “Hammerklavier” had been worth it. The newspaper’s senior critic observed that his approach was “majestic and stirring, with spacious passages where he gave clarity and lyricism to the piece’s milky harmonies and mingling inner voices”, going on to add that Perahia’s performance “exuded integrity and seemed the result of decades of thought”.

The pianist embraced the opportunity to record the most demanding of all Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas for Deutsche Grammophon. “I think it’s presumptuous of me to say whether it’s ready or not,” he notes with characteristic humility. “But I’m happy with the way the interpretation has evolved and, for the moment at least, it seems to answer some of my questions about the piece.” Those questions encompassed everything from the composer’s controversial metronome markings, sometimes set as symbols of an unattainable ideal, to considerations of the sound qualities Beethoven had in mind.

Perahia’s recording, whose release coincides with the bicentenary of the “Hammerklavier” sonata’s completion in 1818, captures the composition’s grandeur and weight while revealing countless subtle tonal nuances, dynamic contrasts and musical insights. “I think the challenge of this music is still alive because one can get deeper and deeper into its mysteries,” he comments. “The mysteries in a piece as complicated as the ‘Hammerklavier’ are endless. What did he mean, for instance, by this G flat that comes from nowhere at the end of the first movement? Everything is connected in Beethoven – there isn’t a random note. And yet this feels improvisatory, entirely spontaneous. It’s just one of the mysteries that will intrigue and occupy musicians forever.”

The spirit of improvisation runs through Murray Perahia’s reading of the “Hammerklavier” sonata’s Adagio sostenuto, among the most expansive of all Beethoven’s slow movements. It also pervades his interpretation of the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight”. The pianist chose to pair the two works above all because of their differences. As he notes, the “Moonlight” is more fantasy than sonata, much freer in form than the four-movement “Hammerklavier”.

Perahia’s understanding of the “Moonlight” deepened as he prepared a new edition of the work for the German publishers Henle. He gathered additional imaginative fuel from recent research suggesting that Beethoven may have intended his sonata to emulate the Aeolian harp, hugely popular during the composer’s lifetime, and is convinced that the harp-like arpeggios of the “Moonlight” represent Beethoven’s vision of the Aeolian instrument.

“I love all the Beethoven piano sonatas and my favourites are perhaps the last few of them,” he concludes. “But the ‘Moonlight’ is one of the great sonatas. Its novelty is something that shouldn’t be underestimated – there had never been a piece like this in the Classical style that used pedalling to create such a new sound. It was a freedom that I don’t think had been heard before, so innovative and still so deeply moving.”

短片乐评一则：Living legend of the piano Murray Perahia records two benchmark sonatas by Beethoven for the first time in his career.

Long renowned for his performances of this composer, Perahia’s brand new recording pairs together two of the most radically ground-breaking of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, in a release that is sure to be a crown jewel of the Beethoven discography.

Murray Perahia stands in the tradition of the great keyboard virtuosi as an artist armed with consummate technical skills, boundless imagination and near-mystical eloquence.

Murray Perahia explored the “Hammerklavier” Sonata first when he was in his mid-twenties. While the work’s enormous technical and physical challenges fell within his grasp, its profound musical demands eluded him. He quietly dropped the “Hammerklavier” from his repertoire, recognising that he would need time to fathom its cosmic depths. Over four decades passed before he felt ready to programme the piece in recital.

After years of studying the original manuscripts, working sketches and editions published during the composer’s lifetime, and having edited the new Henle Urtext edition of The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Perahia now presents two of Beethoven’s most famous sonatas as a revelation.

“The challenge of this music is still alive because one can get deeper and deeper into the piece’s mysteries. That’s endless – both musicologically and emotionally. Everything in it is connected. There isn’t a random note, yet it feels improvisatory. So it’s a mystery that will intrigue and occupy musicians forever.”

往期佩拉西亚：1、佩拉西亚讲解舒曼《童年情景》Op.15；2、音乐短评丨佩拉西亚的《莫扎特钢琴协奏曲全集》丨“27首钢琴协奏曲如同27首诗，贯穿他的一生。”；3、舒曼把《马赛曲》写进了这部作品之中丨佩拉西亚演奏舒曼《狂欢节》Op.26；4、钢琴家佩拉西亚谈艺录丨“在音乐方面，人们必须相信有一个上帝存在，那就是巴赫。”；5、听佩拉西亚的莫扎特丨既超脱于世事之上，而又满怀世间人情！6、佩拉西亚谈巴赫丨他“给与我们力量，同时赐予我们宁静，因为它在精神上把美妙与神圣结为一体！”；7、佩拉西亚丨“我不是一个有宗教信仰的人，但在音乐里我是！” 8、聆听佩拉西亚新唱片《法国组曲》丨“干燥的声音不是巴洛克音乐的特征！”

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