Jenő Jandó - Beethoven: Die Klaviersonaten / Complete Piano Sonatas (2002) (10 CD Box Set)

Jenő Jandó is one of the most prolific artists in the history of classical music recording. He is also one of its most appreciated and admired. Jenő Jandó is a professor at the Liszt Academy Budapest.

The Hungarian pianist has won a number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. He has recorded for Naxos all the piano concertos and sonatas of Mozart. Other recordings for Naxos include the concertos of Grieg and Schumann as well as Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the complete piano sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven, the complete piano music of Bartók, and a wide repertoire of chamber music. His critically acclaimed recordings of the Complete Haydn Piano Sonatas are available in a 10-CD Box Set, released to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death.

In many ways, Jenő Jandó defines the approach which Naxos has to its catalogue: innovation, completeness, quality, breadth and availability. To this can be added perhaps the supremacy of the work over the ego of the performer.

CDs:
CD 01 - Piano Sonata No.8, 14, 23
CD 02 - Piano Sonata No.21, 17, 26
CD 03 - Piano Sonata No.1, 2, 3
CD 04 - Piano Sonata No.30, 31, 32
CD 05 - Piano Sonata No.5, 6, 7, 25
CD 06 - Piano Sonata No.9, 10, 24, 27, 28
CD 07 - Piano Sonata No.12, 16, 18
CD 08 - Piano Sonata No.4, 19, 20, 22, 13
CD 09 - Piano Sonata No.11, 29
CD 10 - Piano Sonata No.15, Kurfursten-Sonaten

Tracklist:
Disc 01
Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 -"Pathétique"
1. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
2. Adagio cantabile
3. Rondo (Allegro)

Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight"
1. Adagio sostenuto
2. Allegretto
3. Presto agitato

Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 -"Appassionata"
1. Allegro assai
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro ma non troppo

Disc 02
Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 -"Waldstein"
1. Allegro con brio
2. Introduzione (Adagio molto)
3. Rondo (Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo)

Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31 No.2 -"Tempest"
1. Largo - Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegretto

Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat, Op.81a -"Les adieux"
1. Das Lebewohl (Adagio - Allegro)
2. Abwesendheit (Andante espressivo)
3. Das Wiedersehn (Vivacissimamente)

Disc 03
Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.2 No.1
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Menuetto (Allegretto)

Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.2 No.1
1. Prestissimo

Piano Sonata No.2 in A, Op.2 No.2
1. Allegro vivace
2. Largo appassionato
3. Scherzo (Allegretto)
4. Rondo (Grazioso)

Piano Sonata No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3
1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio
3. Scherzo (Allegro)
4. Allegro assai

Disc 04
Piano Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109
1. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo - Tempo I
2. Prestissimo
3. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung (Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo)

Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat, Op.110
1. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
2. Allegro molto
3. Adagio ma non troppo - Fuga (Allegro ma non troppo)

Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111
1. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
2. Arietta (Adagio molto semplice e cantabile)

Disc 05
Piano Sonata No.5 in C minor, Op.10 No.1
1. Allegro molto e con brio
2. Adagio molto
3. Finale (Prestissimo)

Piano Sonata No.6 in F, Op.10 No.2
1. Allegro
2. Allegretto
3. Presto

Piano Sonata No.7 in D, Op.10 No.3
1. Presto
2. Largo e mesto
3. Menuetto (Allegro)
4. Rondo (Allegro)

Piano Sonata No.25 in G, Op.79
1. Presto alla tedesca
2. Andante
3. Vivace

Disc 06
Piano Sonata No.9 in E, Op.14 No.1
1. Allegro
2. Allegretto
3. Rondo (Allegro comodo)

Piano Sonata No.10 in G, Op.14 No.2
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Scherzo (Allegro assai)

Piano Sonata No.24 in F sharp, Op.78 "For Therese"
1. Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo
2. Allegro vivace

Piano Sonata No.27 in E minor, Op.90
1. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
2. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen

Piano Sonata No.28 in A, Op.101
1. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung (Allegretto ma non troppo)
2. Lebhaft, marschmäßig (Vivace alla marcia)
3. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll (Adagio ma non troppo, con affetto)
4. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossen- heit (Allegro)

Disc 07
Piano Sonata No.12 in A flat, Op.26
1. Andante con variazioni
2. Scherzo (Allegro molto)
3. Marcia funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe

Piano Sonata No.12 in A flat, Op.26
1. Allegro

Piano Sonata No.16 in G, Op.31 No.1
1. Allegro vivace
2. Adagio grazioso
3. Rondo (Allegretto)

Piano Sonata No.18 in E flat, Op.31 No.3 -"The Hunt"
1. Allegro
2. Scherzo (Allegretto vivace)
3. Menuetto (Moderato e grazioso)
4. Presto con fuoco

Disc 08
Piano Sonata No.4 in E flat, Op.7
1. Allegro molto e con brio
2. Largo, con gran espressione
3. Allegro

Piano Sonata No.13 in E flat, Op.27 No.1
1. Andante - Allegro - Tempo I
2. Allegro molto e vivace
3. Adagio con espressione
4. Allegro vivace - Tempo I - Presto

Piano Sonata No.19 in G minor, Op.49 No.1
1. Andante
2. Rondo (Allegro)

Piano Sonata No.20 in G, Op.49 No.2
1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Tempo di Menuetto

Piano Sonata No.22 in F, Op.54
1. In Tempo d'un Menuetto
2. Allegretto

Disc 09
Piano Sonata No.11 in B flat, Op.22
1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio con molto espressione
3. Menuetto
4. Rondo (Allegretto)

Piano Sonata No.29 in B flat, Op.106 -"Hammerklavier"
1. Allegro
2. Scherzo (Assai vivace - Presto - Prestissimo - Tempo I)
3. Adagio sostenuto
4. Largo - Allegro risoluto

Disc 10
Kurfurstensonaten:
Sonata No.33
Sonata No.34
Sonata No.35
Sonatina No.37
Sonatina No.38
Sonata No.36

Piano Sonata No.15 in D, Op.28 -"Pastorale"
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
Piano Sonata No.15 in D, Op.28 -"Pastorale" - 4. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo