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This is kind if totally separate subject:  the every single sonata by the "adequate" player.

Sometimes I feel in the same way and sometimes, in fact most of the time, I feel that when you get a large collection of those sonatas by a single pianist then it more obvious what he intended to do with a single sonata. However, I agree that there are some pianists that just “got” one single sonata without “getting the entire cycle or opposite: did the entire cycle mostly OK but some specific sonata were completely “wrong”.

The Beethoven’s sonatas are very none-unanimous and each person has own vision how they should be played. I personally do not have an absolutely “best” vision of “the version” but rather best 3-4 versions for each sonata. This probably because the Beethoven’s sonatas are so multifaceted and so divert that it is imposable to express within them a single combined quality.

Talking about the names - those guys would “do” to me now:

Czechoslovakian Ivan Moravic - for a very orthodoxical, conventional mood
Canadian Anton Kuerti - for none-conformistical and twisted mood
Austrian Paul Badura-Skoda – for slightly overly conservative but lash mood
Another Austrian Jörg Demus – for a luxury nerves twisting and soul teasing mood
Old (mono) recording of Austria-Hungarian :-) Rudolph Serkin – for “old” chromic sound and “balance”
Austrian Artur Schnabel – for the mischievous opportunity to find inconsistencies in a reference performance :-)

Defiantly there are many others who recorded just one or a few sonatas and did it phenomenal but the mentioned guys are something that I’m playing when I want to play the Beethoven’s sonatas

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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