There's certainly no shortage of recordings of these four late Beethoven sonatas, but Russo-German pianist Dina Ugorskaja proposes an unusual grouping of them: having already put together the monumental Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), and No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, she now records the comparatively more intimate No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, and No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110, together with two slightly earlier works not always grouped with the late sonatas: Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90, ...
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There's certainly no shortage of recordings of these four late Beethoven sonatas, but Russo-German pianist Dina Ugorskaja proposes an unusual grouping of them: having already put together the monumental Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), and No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, she now records the comparatively more intimate No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, and No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110, together with two slightly earlier works not always grouped with the late sonatas: Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90, and Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101. This has several advantages over the usual grouping of the final three, notably that her performances let the natural differences of mood among the works emerge. When the Op. 110 sonata, for example, is put together with Op. 109 and Op. 111, there's an almost irresistible tendency to bang away at the final fugue, but Ugorskaja avoids this. The program starts out at drawing-room dimensions with a gentle, deliberate, very Mendelssohnian Op. 90...
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