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	Beethoven: Favourite Piano Sonatas / Vladimir Ashkenazy Ludwig van Beethoven, Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca, 1997 average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Ashkenazy has 'done his reading'

Beethoven was a dynamic man who never failed to hold back his
volatile temperament. He was not even tempered with even his
closest associates,relatives and music publishers. These facts
are unanimously noted by all the great Beethoven biographers, both past and present. Too not expect Beethoven's temperament
too pervade his music, especially pieces as personal as his
piano sonatas, is to be mistaken. Ashkenazy recognizes and keeps
Beethoven's emotional nature in his playing of these sonatas. Of
course, we dont know EXACTLY how Beethoven would have played these works, but to think he would not have played them in an
emotionally charged manner, with rising and subsiding waves of
emotion would be to misinterpret the composer. I fully expect
to be jolted by loud playing after very soft playing, etc., and
would never expect Beethoven to have played in a consistent dynamic level throughout his pieces. I base this on what we can
read of the great Beethoven in his bigraphies and his own personal notebooks. So, for those of you who are just discovering
Beethoven's music, dont be put off by those reviews that diminish
the importance of individual playing style,temporal niceties and
having to adjust your volume control. Ashkenazy plays the quiet passages quietly, and the charged passages emotionally, just
as Beethoven wrote them. If, afterall, we are looking for consistency of piano technique throughout, we can always listen
to Haydn.

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