Grigory Sokolov - Beethoven "Moonlight" Sonata, Op.27 No.2 (Krakow 1989)

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[@ЛесяКитайгора]

Потрясающе! Невероятно! Благодарю ❤❤❤

[@upendosimbalionsotheranima796]

Thank you very much! Very original and beautiful interpretation. Happy birthday Maestro Sokolov!

[@williamstadel6113]

Happy Birthday 🎂

[@ILoveBrahms]

Thanks a lot for this (and the Chopin op.25). Do you also have the other Beethoven sonata (op.101) he played in this programme in 1989? I attended a recital with this porgramme in a small city in Germany in 1989 but sadly had no recording equipment with me, so it would be a great thing to have the complete recital.

[@cliveparaschis]

I imagine this is how LVB would have played it - fire and brimstone

[@esfirross6800]

It's Adagio sostenuto-not Moderato. Too fast kill the mood

[@theMEANpipe]

fr what is he doing

[@rossabraham1991]

disagree - listen to the melody - you've been hearing it played too slowly - it is a march.

[@murdo_mck]

This is the authentic tempo according to all Beethoven's contemporaries [1/4 note = 54-60 per Martin Noorduin's thesis "Beethoven's Tempo Indications"]. Adagio sostenuto in Alla breve so 2 beats in a bar - slow march time - for the _melody_ so the accompaniment sounds fast. When Schnabel recorded it in the 1930s he played it fast, Kempf also fairly fast. It does kill the "moonlight" mood which is not to everyone's taste.

[@ppiiaannoo]

Also, Beethoven didn’t name it as moonlight

[@ppiiaannoo]

What’s the mood?

[@theMEANpipe]

way too fast

[@xx133]

Presto agitato. I can’t imagine a more accurate rendition of what Beethoven intended here

[@JakeWelsh-g3i]

​@@xx133 joke? Adagio sostenuto

[@user-nh4od5wp7n]

I agree with you

[@marcraider]

@@xx133 But this isn't Presto agitato, this sounds like Prestissimo