"[Louis] Lortie shares with [Russell] Sherman a tendency to interpret by suggestion, achieved by a host of unexpected pauses and rubatos. Daniel Barenboim, back in the recording palaeolithic (1966) and brimming with joyous self-confidence, wouldn’t have stooped to such portentous prevarication. Flashy he may be, but his playing still reverberates with a directness and ferocity that leave one gasping."
-- Christopher Wood, BBC Music Magazine
There is a rhapsodic feel to Barenboim's approach which is very convincing. The Appassionata, like the Pathetique, is rather wild and rhapsodic in the first movement, and the slow speed for the central variations brings a simple, natural intensity which contrasts well with the lightness and clarity of the finale."
-- Penguin Guide [2003/4] Edition
Works on This Recording
1.
Sonata for Piano no 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique"
by Ludwig van Beethoven
■ Performer: Daniel Barenboim (Piano)
■ Period: Classical
■ Written: 1797-1798; Vienna, Austria
■ Date of Recording: 09/1966
■ Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio 1, London, England
■ Length: 20 Minutes 33 Secs.
2.
Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 no 2 "Moonlight"
by Ludwig van Beethoven
■ Performer: Daniel Barenboim (Piano)
■ Period: Classical
■ Written: 1801; Vienna, Austria
■ Date of Recording: 09/1966
■ Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio 1, London, England
■ Length: 17 Minutes 17 Secs.
3.
Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
by Ludwig van Beethoven
■ Performer: Daniel Barenboim (Piano)
■ Period: Classical
■ Written: 1804-1805; Vienna, Austria
■ Date of Recording: 09/1966
■ Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio 1, London, England
■ Length: 24 Minutes 15 Secs.