Beethoven/ Boris Giltburg - Piano Sonatas Fulfilled By FYE and for just over a

and for just over a week in November 1950 he was mainly in Sweden - Some of the recordings were made at concerts with a buzzing audience and people dancing - hence the live feeling

But there are also common features that recur throughout the program

who he would later learn had not survived the German invasion of Poland

and bravery of programming that was effectively tempered by a dynamic flair for showmanship

Beethoven/ Boris Giltburg - Piano Sonatas Fulfilled By FYE and for just over aLudwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas form an unparalleled canon, remaining one of the greatest and most rewarding challenges for pianists to this day. These three sonatas represent Beethoven's Early, Middle and Late periods but are united in the key of C minor, for the dramatic and stormy intensity of mood in the Pathtique, and major for the radiant and poetic Waldstein sonata. In his sonata Op. 111 the cycle is completed with music of utmost