Steven Beck - Five Piano Sonatas (CD) - CD

Details: A sequence of piano sonatas offers one of the most direct looks into a composer's most private and most practical obsessions, not to mention one easy way to measure the evolution (or lack of evolution) of their compositional techniques. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert turned them out by the dozen. The romantics were much more cautious, with Chopin, Brahms, Schumann writing only...