The "neuer Weg" (new way) referred to in the title of this release by pianist Andreas Staier is not the performance of Beethoven's piano music on a historical instrument, something various pianists have done. Nor is it even the 1810 piano by Viennese maker Matthias Müller, an unusual, clean instrument that compares favorably to the usual Walter models. Instead, the "neuer Weg" was something promised by Beethoven himself, in the famed Heiligenstadt Testament , the unmailed letter in which he laid out his ambitions and his ...
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The "neuer Weg" (new way) referred to in the title of this release by pianist Andreas Staier is not the performance of Beethoven's piano music on a historical instrument, something various pianists have done. Nor is it even the 1810 piano by Viennese maker Matthias Müller, an unusual, clean instrument that compares favorably to the usual Walter models. Instead, the "neuer Weg" was something promised by Beethoven himself, in the famed Heiligenstadt Testament , the unmailed letter in which he laid out his ambitions and his fears about his encroaching deafness. Staier here gathers five piano works: three sonatas and two vastly contrasting variation sets, written close in time to the Testament . The "neuer Weg" did not materialize immediately, but what Staier gets here is that Beethoven's ambitions did. The Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major, Op. 31, No. 3, has been called "a sonata about the sonata, music about music," and indeed, in all five of these works, convention is pushed to its...
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