Andrzej  Ratusinski - Ludwig van Beethoven: 4 Sonatas

Andrzej Ratusinski
Ludwig van Beethoven: 4 Sonatas

Label: Polskie Nagrania - Muza , 2006
Catalogue No: PNCD 902 A-B
Format: 2-CD's (re-mastered from original analog master tapes)

Piano virtuoso Andrzej  Ratusinski, is an graduate of Warsaw School of Music (Poland) and student of Arthur Rubinstein, Jorge Boleta and Vladimir Horowitz. Winner of 1973 25th International F. Busconi's Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy. Soloist of Karajan's Berliner Philpharmonics (1982). Resided of Germany since 1982, performed at the major stages there including Berlin's Philharmonic, Hamburg's Musikhalle, Lipsk's Gewendhaus, Frankfurt's Alte Opera and Munich's Herkulessaaal, as well as numerous venues in Northern and Southern America, China, Africa and Australia. Andrzej  Ratusinski is a professor at Hochschule fur Musil und Darstellende Kunst in Studgard, Germany.

Tracks:
CD A:
1. Sonata f-moll op. 2 nr 1 part I
2. Sonata f-moll op. 2 nr 1 part II
3. Sonata f-moll op. 2 nr 1 part III
4. Sonata f-moll op. 2 nr 1 part IV
5. Sonata d-moll op. 31 nr 2 part I
6. Sonata d-moll op. 31 nr 2 part II
7. Sonata d-moll op. 31 nr 2 part III

CD B:
1. Sonata D-dur op. 10 nr 3 part I
2. Sonata D-dur op. 10 nr 3 part II
3. Sonata D-dur op. 10 nr 3 part III
4. Sonata D-dur op. 10 nr 3 part IV
5. Sonata e-moll op. 111 part I
6. Sonata e-moll op. 111 part II

Performed by:
Andrzej  Ratusinski  - piano

Recorded:
August 26, 1981 at the Warsaw Philharmonics Hall, Warsaw Poland

About:
For reason I can only speculated about, my last recorded performance in Poland, dusted the shelves of Polskie Nagrania archives for last 25 years... That's a long time, a period when I have changed as a man, grew as a pianist and have had a chance to personally meet and contact the most important musicians of the last century. Therefore I ask dear Listeners to judge this documentation of four Beethoven's sonatas only as an archival recordings.
Today, when after a quarter of the century I am listening to it again, I would probably changed - without changing formal construction - many details, which today, I hear completely different. On the other hand this is indeed my own, raw and personal "snapshot" of myself as an artist, many years ago.
This recording was registered without any cuts and mixes - as noises made by the of squeaking doors in the background (as registered at the last moments of 2nd sonata) prove the best..
Andrzej  Ratusinski