Gilels plays Beethoven Sonata No.5, op.10 no.1 (I)

1985 recording of Beethoven Sonata No.5 in C minor, op.10 no.1; composed in 1796, dedicated to Countess Anna Margarete von Browne.

PART I :
- Allegro molto e con brio

PART II : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGyK_gWwQjQ
- Adagio molto

PART III : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBqRmKCU7mE
- Prestissimo

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Husband of the Countess, Count Johann Georg von Browne-Camus, was a nobleman of Irish ancestry in the Russian Imperial service in Vienna, who was Beethovens chief patron between 1797 and 1803. Beethoven had dedicated his three String Trios, op. 9, to the Count, to whom he was indebted in various ways.

The story is such that, after his dedication of the op.10 Sonatas to the Countess, the Brownes gave Beethoven a gift of a riding horse, which he promptly forgot about. One of his more enterprising servants hired out the horse and it wasnt until Beethoven received a large bill for fodder that he curtailed the servants illicit entrepreneurial activities and got rid of the animal.

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• Emil
• Gilels
• Beethoven
• Sonata
• No.5
• op.10
• no.1
• Schnabel
• Kempff
• Yudina
• Richter

[thestratford51]

@xper2xper: thank you !

[xper2xper]

@thestratford51

The recording date is mentioned to be 1985 on the box, and that's what I've referred to.

Additionally, he died in October 1985, before completing the recording of Beethoven sonatas. So, I feel, this one was among those that was recorded the sames year.

All the best!

[fakelove7272]

ohh! this is the first time I hear this piece. I love it.

[skyboyq]

Ooh. I've never had the first comment before!

I like this very much. The rhythmic articulation is very fine and the expression beautifully controlled and purposive. The slightly slower tempo is very effective at managing the rhetoric of the piece. Thanks. I found this performance very clarifying.