There is not a single serious piano student on earth who hasn't had, at some point in his/her formal course of study, to learn from Muzio Clementi's Six Progressive Piano Sonatinas Op. 36. However, when it comes to pieces designed with pedagogical purposes in mind, familiarity can breed contempt, and record companies have not exactly made the recording of Clementi's very extensive keyboard output a priority. To be sure, good recordings have been made, namely by pianists such as Nikolai Demidenko, Tanya Bannister, Maria Tipo ...
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There is not a single serious piano student on earth who hasn't had, at some point in his/her formal course of study, to learn from Muzio Clementi's Six Progressive Piano Sonatinas Op. 36. However, when it comes to pieces designed with pedagogical purposes in mind, familiarity can breed contempt, and record companies have not exactly made the recording of Clementi's very extensive keyboard output a priority. To be sure, good recordings have been made, namely by pianists such as Nikolai Demidenko, Tanya Bannister, Maria Tipo, and a few others. But Clementi's work covers a wide and vastly important span of musical history -- his output in piano sonatas alone runs concurrently with Ludwig van Beethoven's entire lifetime, and Clementi's music reflects all of the changes that took place in the music around him. A comprehensive survey is sorely needed, and that is what Brilliant Classics promises to bring us in the three-disc Clementi: The Complete Sonatas Vol. 1 played on a modern copy of a 1790 Dulcken...
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Add this copy of Complete Sonatas 1 to cart. $35.01, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Brilliant Classics.
