Simmering Beethoven - Waldstein on fortepiano

Full track: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”: I. Allegro con brio
From the album dropping via Leaf Music Distribution on 1 December 2023, with an excerpt from the Waldstein sonata (1803).
Presented on fortepiano by Anders Muskens with a fortepiano by John Broadwood & Sons (1806) restored by Paul Kobald in Amsterdam (2022)
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I personally believe what makes Beethoven's music very special is its rawness: the manic excitement, the tumult, the struggle, the frustration, but also the boldness – the bravery, and the heroic! Beethoven is not innocuous – it needs to provoke, to challenge our notions of what we think classical music is and what it can achieve. I recorded two Beethoven sonatas (from 1803–06) on an original English pianoforte made by the Broadwood firm in London in 1806, and recently restored by Paul Kobald in Amsterdam in 2022. These wonderful historical instruments, when working, can produce that rawness and vitality that Beethoven must have strived for, in a way that no modern instrument seems to manage to achieve convincingly.

The recording was produced by Jakub Klimeš and funded by teh Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada.