Clementi: Complete Sonatas Vol.II - CD

ENGLISH

<br><br>This is a sequel to the 3 CD album with the Viennese sonatas by Clementi released last year. Fortepianist Costantino Mastroprimiano now continues with the composer’s earliest sonatas. They range from really early ones - Clementi may have been only 11 when he wrote the first piece - to mature and technically demanding pieces.<br /> <br /> At twelve and already an organist at the churches of Rome Italian Muzio Clementi was taken to England by a ‘patron’. This Peter Beckford was the dedicatee of Clementi’s first set of published works. They are sonatas and musically uncomplicated. <br /> <br /> This issue also comprises Clementi’s Opera I and II, sets of sonatas composed after his extremely busy period with Beckford, studying and performing as a virtuoso pianist. Especially the three works for solo piano from Opera 'II are' of exceptional virtuosity for that time (1779) and reflect Clementi’s own dexterity.<br /> <br /> Once again fortepianist Costantino Mastroprimiano takes the listener on an interesting journey through mostly unknown territory.