Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2 : Francois-Frederic Guy (3CD)

Beethoven: Sonates Volume 2

Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'
Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 'The Hunt'
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'
Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101

Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)

Beethoven has always lain at the heart of Francois-Frederic Guy’s musical endeavours, from his first disc of the ‘Hammerklavier’ op. 106 on harmonia mundi in the 1990s, which revealed him as one of the future great pianists of his generation, to his set of the concertos conducted by Philippe Jordan and a second version of the ‘Hammerklavier’.

In 2008 the festival Le Printemps des Arts de Monaco offered him the opportunity of performing a complete cycle of the Beethoven sonatas over a series of concerts in a single week, an experience repeated at the Cite de la Musique in Paris in 2009.

A new complete cycle in concert, begun at the Arsenal de Metz in December 2009, will be completed in 2012. ( Zig-Zag Territoires )