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Sonatas Op. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonatas Op. 2

Roberto Prosseda

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917298024
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Catalog number: CC 72980
Releasedate: 04-10-24
- We at Challenge are proud to release the first disc of Roberto Prosseda on our label.
- For his debut on Challenge Prosseda has chosen the three Sonatas op. 2 by Beethoven.
- And for a more personal interpretation, he has selected a Graf fortepiano dated 1820.
- His musicological and filological approach goes hand in hand with a particular and individual musicianship.
- The result is a brand new and refreshing listening of this set of the young Beethoven's masterpieces
Can something new, interesting and ‘true’ still be said about the interpretation of Beethoven’s sonatas? I believe so, provided we break out of the conventions created by the tradition of interpretation and discography, where in 98% of cases a modern piano is used. Therefore, I thought that the choice of recording Beethoven on a historical instrument could also be a way for a more individual interpretative investigation, free from the models that listening to famous recordings on a modern piano risks accustoming us to. I do not believe that there is a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’ instrument on which to perform Beethoven’s Sonatas Opus 2. What matters is the musical result. It depends on the alchemy that is created between the performer and the instrument. Before I came to choose the Graf No. 429, I tried at length various modern copies of fortepiano from 1795 - 1800, trying to get closer to the sound and expressive world of early Beethoven. However, having the opportunity of having a Graf fortepiano (No. 429) in my studio, restored in 2023, I was able to prepare this recording on that instrument, playing it regularly for a year, achieving a kind of familiarity with its action and timbral response that I have grown fond of.
- from the liner notes of the album, by Roberto Prosseda