Veteran British pianist Howard Shelley has undertaken a series covering all of Muzio Clementi's more than 100 keyboard sonatas, ultimately to include six double-disc releases (although they're priced as single discs). This is the third in the series, and if you're after just one album this collection from the middle of Clementi's career offers a fair representation of his strengths. Clementi's nearly two centuries of bad press began with Mozart's remark, reproduced in Leon Plantinga's notes, that Clementi's playing had "an ...
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Veteran British pianist Howard Shelley has undertaken a series covering all of Muzio Clementi's more than 100 keyboard sonatas, ultimately to include six double-disc releases (although they're priced as single discs). This is the third in the series, and if you're after just one album this collection from the middle of Clementi's career offers a fair representation of his strengths. Clementi's nearly two centuries of bad press began with Mozart's remark, reproduced in Leon Plantinga's notes, that Clementi's playing had "an atrocious chopping effect." Plantinga tends to oversell Clementi a bit; the first movement of the Piano Sonata in F major, Op. 13/5, has little in common with the finale of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, beyond a few very simple intervals in its main theme. But the sonatas here, from the middle and late 1780s, embody the strengths claimed by Plantinga and others for Clementi's keyboard sonatas: some of them anticipate Beethoven, while others are exemplary works...
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