Complete Works For Solo Piano

Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)

“The exploration of Beethoven’s piano works still continues to astonish me,” wrote the Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder in 2014, introducing his book Mein Leben mit dem Meister. “Even pieces that I have performed hundreds of times never lose their freshness to me.” Buchbinder recorded this collection of Beethoven’s complete works for solo piano – which includes a number of rarities – between 1973 and 1981. At its heart, of course, are the sonatas. As Buchbinder has said: “There are, I believe, no more personal statements of a human being than those we find in these 32 s, which are also the crowning glory of Beethoven’s oeuvre.”

Beethoven:
 Allegretto in C minor,WoO 53
 Allemande in A major WoO 81
 Andante Favori in F, WoO 57
 Bagatelle in B flat major, WoO 60
 Bagatelle in C major, WoO 54, 'Lustig-Traurig'
 Bagatelle in C major, WoO56
 Bagatelle in C minor, WoO52
 Bagatelle in G minor, WoO 61a (Allegretto quasi Andante)
 11 Bagatelles, Op. 119
   6 Bagatelles, Op. 126
   7 Bagatelles, Op. 33
 12 Contredanses, WoO 14
 12 Deutsche Tänze, WoO 13
 12 Deutsche Tänze, WoO 8
 Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
 Ecossaises
 Eroica Variations, Op. 35
 Fantasia in G minor, Op. 77
 Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59)
 6 Ländler, WoO 15
 Ländlerische Tänze für Zwei Violinen und Bass
 12 Menuets, WoO 7
 Minuet in A flat major, WoO 209 (Hess 33)

 Piano Sonata in C major, WoO 51 

 Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-32:
  No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1
  No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 No. 2
  No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3
  No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 7
  No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1
  No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2
  No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3
  No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'
  No. 9 in E major, Op. 14 No. 1
  No. 10 in G major, Op. 14 No. 2
  No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
  No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre'
  No. 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 'Quasi una fantasia'
  No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'
  No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'
  No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
  No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
  No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 'The Hunt'
  No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49 No. 1
  No. 20 in G major, Op. 49 No. 2
  No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
  No. 22 in F major, Op. 54
  No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'
  No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
  No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
  No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
  No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
  No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
  No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
  No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
  No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
 No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

 Piano Sonatas WoO 47 'Kurfürsten Sonatas' Nos. 1, 2 & 3
 Piano Sonatina No 37 in G major, Anh. 5, No. 1
 Piano Sonatina No. 38 in F major, Anh. 5, No. 2
 Polonaise in C major, Op. 89
 Prelude in F minor WoO 55
 Rondo in A major, WoO 49
 Rondo in B flat major, Anh. 6
 Rondo in C major, WoO 48
 2 Rondos, Op. 51
 Three Marches for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 45
 Two Movements from a Sonatina in F major WoO 50
 Two Preludes, Op. 39
 10 Variations in B-flat major on the duet 'La stessa, la stessissima' from the opera Falstaff by Antonio Salieri, WoO 73
 12 Variations on a Russian Dance, WoO 71
 12 Variations on the 'Menuet à la Vigano' by Haibel, WoO 68
 13 Variations on the Arietta 'Es war ein alter Mann', WoO 66
 24 Variations on Righini's Arietta 'Venni amore,' WoO 65
 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
   5 Variations on 'Rule Britannia', WoO 79
   6 Variations for Piano on an Original Theme in F major, Op. 34
   6 Variations in F major on a Swiss Song, WoO 64
   6 Variations in G major on the duet 'Nel cor più non mi sento' from the opera La Molinara by Giovanni Paisiello, WoO 70
   6 Variations on an original theme 'Die Ruinen von Athen', Op. 76
   6 Variations on an original theme in G major for Piano, WoO 77
   7 Variations on 'God save the King', WoO 78
   7 Variations on the Quartet 'Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen', WoO 75
   8 Variations on the Romance 'Une fièvre brûlante', WoO 72
   9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
   9 Variations on the Aria 'Quant' è più bello', WoO 69
 Waltz in D major WoO 85 
 Waltz in E flat major WoO 84