for | Piano |
Musical Editions | Music score (Urtext edition) |
Item no. | 613305 |
Author / Composer | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Editor | Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia |
Level | advanced–difficult |
Scope | 32 pages; 23.5 × 31 cm |
Release year | 2017 |
Publisher / Producer | Henle Verlag |
Producer No. | HN 1124 |
ISMN | 9790201811246 |
“It is, aside from two passages, one of Beethoven’s easiest; but as far as the performance of individual passages and its whole spirit is concerned, requires every kind of care”, thus wrote a contemporary critic. And it is for this reason that Beethoven’s Sonata op. 90 is extremely popular today, both with piano students and also with professional pianists.
It provides enough challenges: for example the notorious tenth figures in the left hand and – in the words of a contemporary – “uniqueness, striking twists and turns and an unfamiliar, yet no less stringent, composition”. Murray Perahia’s remarks and fingerings provide assistance in all of these areas from a very practised hand.