The Sonata Legacy

After decades of experience performing all of Beethoven’s piano music, the great Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, long renowned as “a true Beethoven authority” (Gramophone) and an artist of “immense and focused force” and “piano purism” (NPR), continues to set standards with his performances of the 32 sonatas all over the world. His cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas at the Semperoper in Dresden was recorded live and released in 2011 as a box by Sony/RCA Red Seal. In 2012 it won Buchbinder the prestigious Echo Klassik Award in the category “Instrumentalist of the year” and the Choc de l’année 2012. The original release made it to the Austrian Pop Charts and the Top 10 on the German Classical charts. Sony Classical now reissues this award-winning set on 9 albums.CD 1Sonata No. 1 in F minor op. 2/1Sonata No. 2 in A major op. 2/2Sonata No. 3 in C major op. 2/3​​​​​​​CD 2Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major op. 7Sonata No. 5 in C minor op. 10/1Sonata No. 6 in F major op. 10/2CD 3Sonata No. 7 in D major op. 10/3Sonata No. 8 in C minor “Pathétique” op. 13Sonata No. 9 in E major op. 14/1Sonata No. 10 in G major op. 14/2CD 4Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major op. 22Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major op. 26Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major op. 27/1Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor “Moonlight” op. 27/2CD 5Sonata No. 15 in D major “Pastoral” op. 28Sonata No. 16 in G major op. 31/1Sonata No. 17 in D minor “The Tempest” op. 31/2CD 6Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major “Hunt” op. 31/3Sonata No. 19 in G minor op. 49/1Sonata No. 20 in G major op. 49/2Sonata No. 21 in C major “Waldstein” op. 53Sonata No. 22 in F major op. 54CD 7Sonata No. 23 in F minor “Appassionata” op. 57Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major op. 78Sonata No. 25 in G major op. 79Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major “Les Adieux” op. 81aSonata No. 27 in E minor op. 90CD 8Sonata No. 28 in A major op. 101Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major “Hammerklavier” op. 106CD 9Sonata No. 30 in E major op. 109Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major op. 110Sonata No. 32 in C minor op. 111