Beethoven Baruda Skoda

Long recognized as the leading piano trio in a competitive field, the Beaux Arts Trio is known for precise, straightforward performances and recordings of everything in the standard Central European trio literature.
In concert, the group makes frequent forays into contemporary and non-mainstream music, but this is hardly evident in its conservative discography.

This reissue box collects the entire cycle of Mozart keyboard sonatas, plus single-movement works, recorded by Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda on a 1790 Schantz fortepiano that he himself owns. The six CDs included were originally recorded between 1978 and 1990 for a group of related French labels; the budget-price reissue on Naïve is a bit atypical for that label, which has specialized in innovative and lavishly designed full-priced releases. Online retail presentations may not make clear that they are fortepiano recordings, recordings made on a keyboard instrument probably very much like one Mozart would have played himself.

This collection of the twenty Sonatas for period piano recorded by Paul Badura- Skoda on the instruments in his own collection has every chance of being considered by posterity as one of the most creative and most significant achievements.

In this recording of the complete piano sonatas on period instruments, the Viennese master Paul Badura-Skoda delivers the work of a lifetime: Schubert's music with his passion, his suffering, and that inimitable tone which makes his native city the place so essentially and existentially identified with music. This collection of the twenty Sonatas for period piano recorded by Paul Badura-Skoda on the instruments in his own collection has every chance of being considered by posterity as one of the most creative and most significant achievements.

Sonata For Arpeggione & Piano D821- String Quintet D956
Nicholas Deletaille · Paul Badura-Skoda · Quatuor Rosamonde
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 362 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Fuga Libera # FUG529 | Country/Year: Europe 2007
Genre: Classical | Style: Early Romantic Period

…An exceptionally interesting chamber music record that allows a dynamic and original young musician to produce himself in very elegant company indeed!