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Label:
  BIS - http://www.bis.se/
Serial:
  BIS-SACD-1460
Title:
  Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 - Freddy Kempf
Description:
  Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 "Pathétique", Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight", Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 "Appassionata"

Freddy Kempf (piano)
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Genre:
  Classical - Instrumental
Content:
  Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
  Hybrid
Recording type:
  PCM
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Review by Jonalogic November 23, 2011 (5 of 8 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:  
This proved to be a somewhat frustrating disc to review. After being much impressed by Kempf’s fine 20th and late 19th Century piano recital discs on BIS, I expected more of the same.

What I got was a bit of a conundrum, at least musically. FK adopts a somewhat reverential and micro-managed approach to Ludwig Van’s sonata classics; every bar – and often individual note – is milked or shaped for utmost dramatic impact. But the end-result seems fussy and over-interpreted. Yes, there’s plenty of drama and pathos, but a high price is played in the loss of the music’s natural ebb and flow. Overall long-term structure is also compromised – many times I seemed to lost where exactly in the score I was…

No such doubts, sonically. This is an exceptionally fine piano recording – truthful, natural and with wholly unconstrained dynamics; as a result, climaxes expand without effort to fill the acoustic space.

I just wish I could have been more equivocal about FK’s interpretations. This is a case where less would definitely have been more.

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Works: 3  

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique"