Daniel Barenboim - The First Steps to Glory '2018

Tracks list

Tracklist
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CD1
01. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 Pathétique: I. Grave-Allegro di
molto e con brio
02. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 Pathétique: II. Adagio cantabile
03. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 Pathétique: III. Rondo. Allegro
04. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight: I. Adagio
sostenuto
05. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight: II.
Allegretto-Trio
06. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight: III. Presto
agitato
07. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 Appassionata: I. Allegro assai
08. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 Appassionata: II. Andante con moto
09. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 Appassionata: III. Allegro ma non
troppo-Presto

CD2
01. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 Waldstein: I. Allegro con brio
02. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 Waldstein: II. Introduzione. Adagio
molto
03. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 Waldstein: III. Rondo. Allegretto
moderato-Prestissimo
04. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso-Allegro con brio ed
appassionato
05. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice
e cantabile

CD3
01. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier: I. Allegro
02. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier: II. Scherzo.
Assai vivace-Presto-Tempo I
03. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier: III. Adagio
sostenuto
04. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier: IV.
Largo-Allegro risoluto

CD4
01. Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 6, W. A12: I. Allegro
02. Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 6, W. A12: II. Andante
03. Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 6, W. A12: III. Prestissimo
04. Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major
05. Keyboard Sonata in G Major
06. 12 Variations in C Major on Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman, K. 265
07. Capriccio in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 5, MWV U50
08. 4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119: No. 3, Intermezzo in C Major
09. Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13 No. 1: I. Allegro assai
10. Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13 No. 1: II. Andantino
11. Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13 No. 1: III. Presto
12. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 2 in A Minor
13. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 3 in G Major
14. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 24 in D Minor
15. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
16. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
17. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 21 in B-Flat Major
18. 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 5 in D Major

Great artists are usually individuals solely dedicated to their artistic
fulfillment throughout the course of their life; some of them even seem to live
in another world. Daniel Barenboim, born in Buenos Aires in 1942, is the supreme
example in our time of an exception to this rule. As pianist, conductor and
opera director he is a cosmopolitan in music, but at the same time he is a
humanist who sees himself as a politically aware contemporary citizen active
above all in the search for solutions to religious and national problems. His
parents were music teachers, moving first to Israel, then to Europe. Daniel
Barenboim gave his first concert when he was seven, and was giving piano
recitals in Vienna and Salzburg at the age of ten; he sought advice as a pianist
from Edwin Fischer, and as a conductor from Igor Markevitch; his London concert
debut of 1955 was conducted by Josef Krips. Six years later he was standing on
the conductor’s rostrum himself. As successor to Georg Solti in 1975, he
assumed the position- which he held till 1989- of Director of the Orchestre de
Paris and in 1981, he celebrated the first of his many Bayreuth triumphs with
his Tristan premiere. He took the Berlin Philharmonic on their first tour of
Israel in 1990 and since 1992 he has been General Music Director of
Berlin’s Staatsoper unter den Linden and its orchestra, the
Staatskapelle. The recordings on the present album were made in 1959, at the
beginning of a great career.

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