- Audio CD (Jun 1 2010)
- SPARS Code: ADD
- Number of Discs: 10
- Format: Box set
- Label: EMI Classics
- ASIN: B00000C2KP
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #48,216 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The wit and the freshness impress most in Barenboim's set.
Mar 30 2001
Format:Audio CD
A complete set of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas will provide any serious music lover with rich and endless enjoyment. Bold, challenging, beautiful, witty and fresh - they seem to encompass all aspects of human sensibility and aspiration. It is perhaps the wit and the freshness that impress most in Barenboim's EMI boxed set of the complete sonatas.
Daniel Barenboim was 25 when he was invited to record them. Has any other pianist ever received such an invitation at that age? Barenboim accepted, but insisted that he be free to record them again if he wished to at a later stage in his career. Well, so far he has made one further complete recording, and that is very fine too.
This set, however, recorded 1966-1969 is the one complete set I prefer above all others. Every listener will have his favourite sonatas and his favourite moments in them. I especially like Barenboim's spontaneous playing of the four sonatas found on CD 8. Elsewhere, Barenboim sometimes has a tendency to push slow tempos to extreme: the variation movements of Nos 30 and 32 are surely excessively slow.
Welcome indeed, especially for those who once owned these recordings on first release vinyl, is the high quality of these 1989 EMI transfers. Adding inestimably to the value of this set are the notes provided by Eric Blom. Slightly abridged and edited here, they originally accompanied the first complete recording of the 32 sonatas made in the 1930s by Artur Schnabel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Performed with great enthusiasm
May 16 2004
Format:Audio CD
This is classic early Barenboim (he was just 24 when he started recording this set in 1966). He is very enthusiastic and expressive (if you don't like him, he "takes liberties" and "shows off"). The slow movements are veerrry slow, and the fast ones really rip. Pianissimo is extremely soft, and fortissimo rattles the windows! [My wife insists that I wear headphones for late-night listening.]
Personally, I think his style is just right for Beethoven (but perhaps just a bit much when he plays Mozart). I'm very glad that I bought this set, but some might prefer Brendell's (Phillips) or Kempff's (DG) more sedate versions.
SAFE
Oct 10 2003
Format:Audio CD
If you're looking for a sonata cycle, this Barenboim set is a very safe choice. Reagarded as a virtuoso growing up, but signing a recording contract with EMI in his early 20's is remarkable! There is humor, style, passion and profundity in his readings but if you really want a set...go for the Schnabel set! I would recommend Barenboim's EMI set over his DG cycle.
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Overrated. Very superficial and uninspiring
It's quite unbelievable that so many 'serious' music listeners like this Beethoven Sonatas set. Here we have Daniel Barenboim, a very mediocre pianist without any sense of poetry,... Read more
Published on Mar 28 2004 by hjonkers
Musings of a genius!!!
The beethoven piano sonatas are quite simply the finest in their genre or for that matter in any category. Read more
Published on Jun 17 2002
Barenboim's best recordings.
As in his recent cycle of Beethoven's Nine with the Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim's first cycle of Beethoven's 32 on EMI is louder in the loud parts and more quiet in the... Read more
Published on May 17 2002 by FoFW
Youthful Exhuberance
I have not heard many of the other pianists listed in these reviews. But I do know that I did a blind listening of Barenboim vs. Read more
Published on Mar 5 2002
My Favorite Beethoven Sonata Cycle
I bought this cycle since I was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with Wilhelm Kempff's (1964) set on DG - a set I grew up with while studying many of these sonatas at the piano. Read more
Published on May 4 2001
Sweet, civil Beethoven
Barenboim's performances of the Beethoven piano sonatas in this collection make for easy, pleasant listening. Read more
Published on Sep 27 2000 by physics student
The standard for all but the late sonatas
Let people (including me) tell you what they will, but listen to all of them, decide for yourself, and you will have to agree after repeated listenings that Barenboim's renditions... Read more
Published on July 20 2000 by Ramon Kranzkuper
Pretty damn good
I am a passionately committed (student) pianist, and I received this set as a gift. Though I never considered myself a Barenboim fan - I actually kind of hated him - I really was... Read more
Published on Dec 21 1999
Great first choice series
I've collected nearly all of the integral sets of the sonatas, and I'd find it hard to choose just one -- but this is certainly one set that I think I could live with and enjoy... Read more
Published on Jan 4 1999
Excellent recording quality and keyboard sharpness
I am not much of a pianist, but I enjoy piano music and really loved this 10-CD collection. Barenboim is crisp and accurate. Read more
Published on Dec 25 1998 by B. Rose
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