The great middle period sonatas

- A double CD with a total playing time of over two and a half hours of music !!! CD 1 = 71'02" and CD 2 no less than 79'09".

- All the great and famous Beethoven Sonatas from his middle period together in one package, including such all time favourites as the Waldstein, the Appassionata, The Tempest, A Therese and The Farewell.

- A beautifully illustrated booklet (with full page portraits of Countess Therese von Brunswick and Archduke Rudolph of Austria) and an extensive introduction to the Sonatas written by Charles Rosen himself, is included (English, French and German!).

- An absolutely unique release which will be attractive to a very large music loving audience, not only because of the imaginative and authoritative peformances by Charles Rosen, but also because of the sheer amount of popular Beethoven Sonatas presented here in one issue !

Charles Rosen has been hailed as 'not just a bill a musical thinker' (London Times). He was enroled at the illustrious School of Music, New York, at the age or six, leaving at age eleven to study with the renowned pianist Moritz Rosenthal, a pupil of Franz Liszt. He has become one of the foremost pianists of our time, renowned for his performances on record and in concert of Beethoven and Schumann, and from this centure, Boulez and Elliott Carter. His Beethoven interpretations rank among the most authorititive performances in concert and on records.