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Beethoven: Two Sonatas for Pianoforte - Harris Goldsmith

Beethoven: Two Sonatas for Pianoforte - Harris Goldsmith

“Listening to Harris Goldsmith play was literally one of the most gratifying musical experiences I can remember…listening to him I had tears in my eyes with pleasure and happiness. I do not know when I have heard a young pianist with such an instinctive musicianship, with such nature perception and imagination.
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Harris Goldsmith Two Sonatas Liner Notes
Beethoven's music -- steeped in Classical procedure, yet so Romantic in ambience and far reaching in revolutionary structural innovation -- invites classification but stubbornly defies it. One by-product of the elusive quest is an "Early-Middle-Late" trilogy -- the facile partitioning of the Master's output purely by chronology. The three sonatas here respond well enough to such classification -- up to a point; on closer examination, one sees only too well the pitfalls and contradictions in so simplistic an approach.
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His gaunt, precipitous sweep through the Waldstein’s first movement stands up to equally galvanizing readings by Solomon and Bruce Hungerford, without missing the smallest detail. Unlike many so-called Beethoven specialists, Goldsmith observes the Adagio molto’s eighth-note rests to the letter, and he takes the Rondo’s controversial long pedal markings on faith. The coda goes like the wind, but never spins out of control–and what effortless, ethereal glissando octaves!...Among Goldsmith’s fresh insights vis-à-vis the A-flat Op. 110 sonata are unusually clear left-hand passagework in the first movement, a brisker, more vehement Allegro Molto than usual, plus carefully considered tempo relationships that generate uncommon continuity and cumulative impact in the final movement’s alternating arioso and fugue sections.
Jed Distler, Classics Today
11/29/2024
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