Pierre Boulez - The Three Piano Sonatas (2005)
Classical | EAC (APE, CUE & NO LOG) | 150 MB
Classical | EAC (APE, CUE & NO LOG) | 150 MB
IonartsThe reviewer also had this to say: "Beautiful? Nay. Unless you have a mildly strange sense of what beauty is." But then who would have thought the definition of beauty is a question better left in the eye of the beholder? Can we forget about the value judgment for once and just enjoy the damn music?!
For less erudite or less theoretically inclined ears, what remains is a jumble of sound, an intellectual challenge. And yet, I cannot but enjoy the music utterly. Of course, the enjoyment is not quite the same as when listening to a middle Beethoven sonata, or even a late one, but anyone who knows what it takes to learn to like Beethoven's String Quartets, a work just as austere as Boulez's Sonatas are (seemingly) erratic, is on his way to find entertainment, solace, pleasure in these keyboard paintings. If looking at Barnett Newman's work can fill you with an inexplicable sense of awe, you will likely enjoy these works so engagingly and convincingly told by Boulez's hand-picked pianist Paavali Jumppanen. I remember listening to Debussy preludes for the first couple of times with similar enjoyable incomprehension. Not the music counted then, but the faintly grasped, hardly understood pictures it evoked.
- Tracklist
Piano Sonata No. 1
1. Lent
2. Assez large
Piano Sonata No. 2
1. Extrêmement rapide
2. Lent
3. Modéré, presque vif
4. Très librement, avec de brusques oppositions de mouvement et de nuances
Piano Sonata No. 3
Formant 2:
1. Trope. Parethese. Nettement Au - Dessous De Lent - Attacca
2. Trope. Glose. Lent - attacca:
3. Trope. Commentaire. Nettement moins lent - attacca:
4. Trope. Texte. Presque lent
Formant 3:
1. Constellation-Miroir. Mélange points et blocs. Modéré/Vif
2. Constellation-Miroir. Points 3. Suspendu
3. Constellation-Miroir. Blocs II. Lent
4. Constellation-Miroir. Points 2. Suspendu
5. Constellation-Miroir. Blocs I. Vif
6. Constellation-Miroir. Points 1. Suspendu
Paavali Jumppanen, piano