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| | Amazon.com: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14, 21 & 23 / Wilhem Kempff: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | His renditions of the Pathetique and Moonlight sonatas are exquisite, justly famous, and perfectly suited to his approach to Beethoven. |
 | | His playing of the sonatas was much more "introverted" than that of most other pianists; he always brought out the personal, introspective qualities of Beethoven, even in brilliant, heroic works like the Waldstein or the Appassionata. |
 | | Kempff's strengths are, in my opinion, better suited to the Haydenesque early sonatas and to the clarity and profundity of the late sonatas than to the early-middle to middle piano sonatas played here, which call for a more fiery temperament and style of playing than Kempff's admirably clear, lucid approach. |
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