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Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas

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Emil Gryesten, piano

Danish pianist Emil Gryesten is a graduate of the Sibelius Academy in Finland and the Como International Piano Academy in Italy, in addition to having studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in his native Denmark. His notable teachers include Niklas Sivelöv, Erik T. Tawaststjerna and Eero Heinonen, as well as his teachers at the Como International Piano Academy, Fou Ts‘ong, Dmitri Bashkirov and William Grant NaborĂ©. His early training took place at the Gradus Junior College in Aarhus, where his teacher was the Danish pianist Martin Lysholm Jepsen.

He has received awards at a number of competitions for young pianists, including the First Prize at the Hamburg Steinway Competition, the Nordic Piano Competition in Nyborg, the BlĂŒthner Pianist Competition in Malmö, Sweden, and at the Finnish National Piano Competition in JyvĂ€skylĂ€.

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Artalinna, la musique, l’art, les bonnes choses (in French)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101
1. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung
2. Lebhaft. MarschmĂ€ĂŸig
3. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll
4. Geschwinde, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit

Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 – “Hammerklavier”
5. Allegro
6. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
7. Adagio sostenuto
8. Largo – Allegro risoluto (Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze)

Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
1. Vivace, ma non troppo
2. Prestissimo
3. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung

Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat major, Op. 110
4. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
5. Allegro molto
6. Adagio ma non troppo – Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo – L’istesso tempo di Arioso – L’istesso tempo della Fuga a po di nuovo vivente

Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
7. Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato
8. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

A Lifelong Relationship
By Emil Gryesten

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827) has been a very dear friend of mine for almost my entire life. The engagement with Beethoven’s piano music has been a near—constant occupation since my ïŹrst attempts at performance of the Bagatel/e in A minor WOO 59, more commonly known as ”Fiir Elise”, at the age of eight or nine. Nonetheless, it was the disruption and sudden abundance of free time during the coronavirus pandemic that became the starting point for the project, which has led to the creation of this double album. My recording of the late sonatas of Beethoven represents at once a culmination of my lifelong involvement with Beethoven and an exploration of yet unexplored paths. The classical music world was looking forward to the year 2020 with the expectation of massive celebrations of the 250 years anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. had been invited to perform recitals focusing on the German titan at concert series and festivals in Denmark, and I decided to challenge myself to perform two sonatas, which I did not yet have in my repertoire: The gigantic, seemingly unplayable op. 106, known as the ”Hammerklavier”, and the most spiritual and mysterious of the 32 Beethoven sonatas, the ïŹnal sonata, op. 111.

As the year 2020 unfolded, the pandemic meant that most of the planned concerts did not happen. Instead, used the opportunity to convert my current involvement with the late piano sonatas into an artistic research project at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) in Copenhagen, where had been a faculty member since 2017, combining my work on Beethoven with a focus on a particular branch of music theory.

RELEASE DATE:  November 2023

CATALOGUE NUMBER:  DACOCD 973

EAN: 5709499973004

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