Piet Kuijken

Piet Kuijken – Dussek: Sonatas, Op. 39 & Op.25 No.2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:35 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

These sonatas date from a high-point in the career of the Czech-born Jan Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812), at a time when he was established in London as a sought-after performer and fashionable piano teacher. His partnership with the instrument-maker John Broadwood resulted in significant technical developments to the fortepiano which would be imitated abroad and capitalised upon in Vienna by Beethoven, notably the extra power and larger range.
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Piet Kuijken – Beethoven: An Eternal Love (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:36:00 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fuga Libera

For his fourth release on the Fuga Libera label, the pianist and fortepianist Piet Kuijken, professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Antwerp Conservatory, presents a programme of music by Ludwig van Beethoven. The starting point of this double album is an artistic approach that is both pedagogical and musical: the first half of the release contains pieces such as the Sonate Pathétique op.13 and the Sonata op.110 performed on a historical piano (a Tomkison original from 1808), while the second invites you to compare this with pieces of the same magnitude – the Appassionata Sonata op.23 and the imposing op.111, amongst others – played on a modern piano.

A text written by the eminent musician invites you to follow the artist’s approach, within the same type of repertory when faced with these two different instruments.

A sensitive and interesting album to help you discover all the different facets of this artist!
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