Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven:Piano Sonatas 22-28 - Naxos Deutschland

"Aufnahme"
Recorded at Palais Kinsky, Palais Lobkowitz and Palais Rasumowsky, Vienna, 1983-84

In the fourth of five DVD releases, seven-time Grammy Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim plays the Piano Sonatas 22 - 28 of Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas, the so-called "New Testament" of music. Composed over twenty-five years and embodying the shift of musical taste from the Classic to the Romantic, their performance requires a musician of extraordinary versatility. Barenboim is one such pianist - his recordings run the gamut from Bach and Mozart to Bruckner and Bartok. In following in the footsteps of such masters as Artur Schnabel, Barenboim truly shows himself to be among the greatest living musicians.