Éric Heidsieck – Beethoven: Sonates pour piano Nos. 23 “Appassionata”, 26 “Les Adieux” & 29 “Hammerklavier” (1961/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Éric Heidsieck – Beethoven: Sonates pour piano Nos. 23 “Appassionata”, 26 “Les Adieux” & 29 “Hammerklavier” (1961/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:20:45 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Éric Heidsieck, gave his first recital at the age of 9 in Reims and his first concert with orchestra a year later. In 1954, he finished the class of Marcel Ciampi in the first place; then took his first lessons with Alfred Cortot at l’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. Parallel to that, he attended the courses of Wilhelm Kempff on L.v. Beethoven in Positano.

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Eric Heidsieck – Hindemith: Sonates pour piano Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (1990/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Eric Heidsieck – Hindemith: Sonates pour piano Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (1990/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:01 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

French classical pianist Éric Heidsieck presents a programme of Piano Sonatas from prolific German composer Paul Hindemith. Hindemith was widely known for his contribution to the artistic movement of “New Objectivity”, which refected the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists.

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Eric Heidsieck – Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Eric Heidsieck – Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:20 minutes | 665 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

Éric Charles Heidsieck (born 21 August 1936) is a French classical pianist.

Born in Reims, Heidsieck gave his first recital at the age of nine and his first concert with orchestra a year later.

He studied with Marcel Ciampi then Alfred Cortot and followed Wilhelm Kempff’s lessons on Beethoven.

In 1959, he won the Grand Prix du Disque (EMI) for the recording of Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 and No. 24. The following year, he and his wife Tania, also a pianist, founded a duo that shone on stages around the world.

In 1969, Heidsieck was the first French pianist of the 20th century to give, by memory and in public, Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, which he recorded with EMI Classics between 1970 and 1974 and again ten years later, then in 1997. He specializes in the performance and recording of integrals.
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Eric Heidsieck – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier” (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Eric Heidsieck – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier” (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:18 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Barely aged twenty, Éric Heidsieck burst into the classical milieu with a very noted recording of a pianistic challenge and monument of the repertoire, Beethoven’s twenty-ninth sonata. This album, the very first of a long series, preludes two other later recordings of the Hammerklavier – definitely a Heidsieck favorite!

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