The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonata Collection - by Jonny Lost

[Garritan]

Jonny Lost has done something so astounding! He has done all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas using the GPO Steinway. Jonny's complete set of Beethoven sonatas is shows great mastery and control and just about every aspect of the GPO Steinway. I was transfixed in amazement listening to them. This must have taken Jonny months to do this.

Here are the links to all 32 sonatas:

1. Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_01-in-F_Op2No1.mp3)

2. Piano Sonata No.2 in A major, Op. 2/2 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_02-in-A_Op2No2.mp3)

3. Piano Sonata No.3 in C major, Op. 2/3 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_03-in-C_Op2No3.mp3)

4. Piano Sonata No.4 in E flat major ("Grand Sonata") Op. 7 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_04-in-Eb_Op7.mp3)

5. Piano Sonata No.5 in C minor, Op. 10/1 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_05-in-C_Op10No1.mp3)

6. Piano Sonata No.6 in F major, Op. 10/2 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_06-in-F_Op10No2.mp3)

7. Piano Sonata No.7 in D major, Op. 10/3 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_07-in-D_Op10No3.mp3)

8. Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor ("Pathétique") Op. 13 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_08-in-C_Op13-Pathetique.mp3)

9. Piano Sonata No.9 in E-flat Major (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_09-in-E_Op14No1.mp3)

10. Piano Sonata No.10 G Major (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_10-in-G_Op14No2.mp3)

11. Piano Sonata No.11 in B flat major, Op. 22 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_11-in-Bb_Op22.mp3)

12. Piano Sonata No.12 in A-flat Major (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_12-in-Ab_Op26.mp3)

13. Piano Sonata No.13 in E flat major ("Quasi una fantasia") Op. 27/1 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_13-in-Eb_Op27No1.mp3)

14. Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor ("Moonlight"), Op. 27/2 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_14-in-CsharpOp27No2-Moonlight.mp3)

15. Piano Sonata No.15 in D major ("Pastoral") Op. 28 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_15-in-D_Op28-Pastoral.mp3)

16. Piano Sonata No.16 in G major, Op. 31/1 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_16-in-G_Op31No1.mp3)

17. Piano Sonata No.17 D Minor, ("Tempest") (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_17-in-D_Op31No2-Tempest.mp3)

18. Piano Sonata No.18 in E flat major ("Hunt") Op. 31/3 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_18-in-Eb_Op31No3-The%20Hunt.mp3)

19. Piano Sonata No.19 in G minor, Op. 49/1r (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_19-in-G_Op49No1.mp3)

20. Piano Sonata No.20 in G Major (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_20-in-G_Op49No2.mp3)

21. Piano Sonata No.21 in C major ("Waldstein") Op. 53 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_21-in-C_Op53-Waldstein.mp3)

22. Piano Sonata No.22 in F major, Op. 54 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_22-in-F_Op54.mp3)

23. Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor ("Appassionata") Op. 57 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_23-in-F_Op.57-Appassionata.mp3)

24. Piano Sonata No.24 in F sharp major ("A Thérèse") Op. 78 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_24-in-FsharpOp.78-For%20Therese.mp3)

25. Piano Sonata No.25 in G major ("Cuckoo") Op. 79 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_25-in-G_Op79.mp3)

26. Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat major ("Les Adieux") Op. 81a (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_26-in-Eb_Op81-Les%20Adieux%20.mp3)

27. Piano Sonata No.27 n E minor, Op. 90 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_27-in-E_Op90%20.mp3)

28. Piano Sonata No.28 in A major, Op. 101 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_28-in-A_Op101.mp3)

29. Piano Sonata No.29 in B flat major ("Hammerklavier") Op. 106 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_29-in-Bb_Op106-Hammerklavier.mp3)

30. Piano Sonata No.30 in E major, Op. 109 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_30-in-E_Op109.mp3)

31. Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat major, Op. 110 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_31-in-Ab_Op110.mp3)

32. Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op. 111 (http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_32-in-C_Op111.mp3)



If you are a devoted fan of Beethoven's piano sonatas, you owe it to yourself to hear these 32 renditions.

I don't know how to thank you enough Jonny.

Gary Garritan

[Poolman]

http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Great job, Jonny! You're a man after my own heart. And thanks for not drowning everything in a fog of over-reverb.

Terry

[Larry G. Alexander]

That's really incredible! He obviously played all of these real-time didn't he? I love them all but number seventeen has always been my favorite.

Thanks, Jonny Lost for a remarkable job.

Regards,

Larry Alexander

[trentpmcd]

Wow! Were these all played in? I've just started listening (I'm at the second movement of the first sonata - I have a lot of listening ahead) and it sounds great so far.

Quick edit - done with the first, starting the second - I'd be impressed with one or two at this quality, but all 32?

[Joseph Burrell]

I'll have to listen to Moonlight when I get home. That is a fav of mine (I know, its so cliched.) An amazing effort Johnny.

[Karl Garrett]

Jonny,

I'm listening to the first one. The performance is simply wonderful. Oh my, and now the 2nd. So sensitive. I'd rather listen than write. so I'll just say thank you, vary much for sharing these with us.

Karl

[Karl Garrett]

The bar just seems to get raised with each new piece. Still listening... now the third movement. How the heck did you do these.

Breathless in Langhorne,

Karl

[Hans Grubner]

"He obviously played all of these real-time didn't he?"

No, I don´t think so. Sorry, sounds like strongly quantized midifiles from the internet. (op.101)

[Karl Garrett]

No, I don´t think so. Sorry, sounds like strongly quantized midifiles from the internet. (op.101)

Parts seem almost too accurate for live performance, but Jonny's been on this forum a long time. I don't think he'd have anything posted without telling us who the performer is.

Karl

[Joseph Burrell]

Yes, please don't make accusations of that nature unless founded.

[imagegod]

"Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"

Clockwork Orange/Stanley Kubrik/Anthony Burgess
Re: Ludwig Von :D :D

[Jonny Lost]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the remarks. Thanks for posting these Gary. I would have done it myself, but I have nowhere near the amount of space on my server right now! :-)

Just to quell an argument before it begins, no, I didn't perform these. I used the Piano Roll view in Sonar and Home Studio to do these. I wish I could play like this, but, unfortunately, I can't. I do have the MIDI files, but both Bass and Treble staffs are in one track. I'm not really sure why I did it this way. I just did.

I hope everyone likes these. This is an ongoing project that I started about two years ago. The main reason I did this was because many of my students had never heard most of the Beethoven Sonatas. I decided instead of finding recordings, I'd make my own. My goal is to get through all of Beethoven Catalogue. Kind of like a GPO Master Series. I'm working on the String Quartets now. I'll let you all know when they are done.

Enjoy,
Jonny

[UNIX_GURU]

Jonny Lost,

This is great stuff thanks :D

[Karl Garrett]

Jonny,

You have done a wonderful job on these. If they were on a CD, I would purchase it in a heartbeat. Perhaps you are not a great piano technician, but you are one great musician. :)

Thanks again.

Karl

[Jonny Lost]

Thanks alot Karl. Fortunately, you can download them and listen to them for as long as you want for free! :-)


Jonny

[dermod]

I'm speechless. What an achievement. I have just played through two sonatas against the score. The attention to detail and and interpretation are magnificent. And the string quartets are simmering in the oven! But can it be possible to match this standard in the minefield of string emulation? If so, my boxed set buying days are over.

[jesshmusic]

My piano professor in college took a 2 year sabbatical and committed all of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas to memory. And she can play the hell out of them. :) This thread reminded me of that.

[gardibolt]

Lovely job, Jonny! Even though I'm all about the Unheard Beethoven, the Heard Beethoven is always welcome and these are marvelous renditions. Other than a little bit too much precision in the trills I wouldn't have guessed these were midi-sourced.

Mark

[Marcussen]

Very nice! Loads of peices ive never heard. Nice to have access to them all :)

[gardibolt]

By the way, Jonny, if you'd care to try your hands at an Unheard Beethoven piano sonata, we can get you the Biamonti 213 sonata in D (completed by Willem Holsbergen). Don't forget the three juvenile sonatas WoO 47 too. :)

[Rhap2]

[QUOTE=Jonny Lost]Thanks alot Karl. Fortunately, you can download them and listen to them for as long as you want for free! :-)

Magnificent effort Jonny. What is frustrating to 56K downloaders is that we have to wait too long to hear most of the works. Oh, for
DSL.........

Really great, though....

John

[stevegoers]

Nice job, Jonny. The Pathetique has always been my favorite, and it really made my morning to listen to your excellent realization over my coffee. Well done!

[Karl Garrett]

Gary,

All downloaded fine except 30 and 31. You might want to check those files.

Karl

P.S. I Will enjoy these all day. Thanks again Jonny and Gary for hosting them.

[Jonny Lost]

Karl,


Weird, They aren't working for me either. Anyone else having this problem?
You are most welcome Karl. :)

Jonny

[Joseph Burrell]

30: http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_30-in-E_Op109.mp3

31: http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_31-in-Ab_Op110.mp3

There were spaces in the hyperlinks causing them not to work properly.

[Jonny Lost]

Thanks a bunch Joseph. :)

Jonny

[Garritan]

Thanks Joseph. The links are now fixed http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Styxx]

30: http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_30-in-E_Op109.mp3

31: http://www.garritan.com/mp3/beethoven/PianoSonata_31-in-Ab_Op110.mp3

There were spaces in the hyperlinks causing them not to work properly.


There were spaces in my sausage links this morning causing them to burn and fall off the griddle and into the flame. :D

[Joseph Burrell]

Yeah and there were these spaces in my Krispy Creme doughnut this morning. So I'm filling a lawsuit for 20 million dollars. It really hurt me. :p

[Looper]

Hey everyone,

I used the Piano Roll view in Sonar and Home Studio to do these. Jonny

Even more impressive! How long would each Sonata take using this method. The piano roll must be far more efficient than I thought.

[Fabio]

Impressing.

What an useful job for the addition of expressions to the nearly flat usual MIDI files available on the net.

I would like to DLD all midi files. It's a book and a record in one thing. :eek:

[SeanHannifin]

Thanks again for your awesome work and dedication to this! The sonatas sound beautiful. The velocity changes are splendid, showing off a lot of emotion and color. This really shows off what can be done with the GPO piano! Thanks again, marvellously done! :)

[DarwinKopp]

Jonny,

These are wonderful realizations!

Just FYI, #15-pastoral (my fave) is missing the 4th movement.

Thanks for all the effort in putting these gems together.

[tradivoro]

Jon, I gotta hand it to you, amazing achievement, very musical and great sounding considering the large volume of work... Thanks for sharing this.. :)

[FredProgGH]

Nice job, Jonny. The Pathetique has always been my favorite, and it really made my morning to listen to your excellent realization over my coffee. Well done!

That's the first one I went to. Great job, Johnny! Man, that's one of the fastest opening movments I've ever heard of this, but the virtual pianist is up to the task!! :D :D

Again, you should be very proud of this work.

[allend2010]

Thank you very much for these! I'm really enjoying them. Excellent work!

[Coriolan]

Anyone dare to orchestrate? :rolleyes:

[Joseph Burrell]

Listened to Moonlight. Thumbs way up Jonny. You did an outstanding job. I see a whole category on the new Demo Page devoted to these. ;)

[Coriolan]

Great job!

P.S. Something went terribly wrong in №14 (please, don't call it moonlight) in the 3rd movement where the famous heavy arpeggiated chords are (a few bars before the end). Omitted pedal? Number of voices exceed the allowed polyphony settings?

P.P.S. Some of the melisms seem a bit too rapid. Especially some of the grace notes in №1 are played as if it was Mahler's 7th Symphony ("vorshaege so shnell als moeglich") :)

P.P.P.S To recapitulate, great job. I'm listening through all the sonatas right now (the download speed exactly equals the playback speed so when I finish listening to sonata N, sonata N+1 finishes downloading :) with the score in my hands. And this is one more reason for me to read through all of them again. Thanks, you made my day.

[Jonny Lost]

Hey Everyone,


Wow, thanks for all the kind words. I'm really happy that everyone likes these. I apologize for the few blunders that several people have come accrossed.

Darwin, believe it or not, my score must be missing the 4th movement!! Oh well. :)

Joseph, that would be awesome to have these on the demo page. Maybe we can do the String Quartets when I finish with them (I have to find my recordings of them first!!). By the way, good luck on your donut hole lawsuit!!

Sorry about the size of the files. I wanted to make sure that the MP3's had a high bit rate so that the recordings sounded clear. I didn't think about the grief our dial-up friends would have to go through. My suggestion is get a download manager, set them to download, then go read "War and Peace"!! :D

To be honest, I do most of my composing and arranging usuing the Piano Roll view in Home Studio. It's actually very effective. Sometimes things may be a bit too quantized, but there are ways to fix that. I very rarely play things in live because I can never get them to sound right due to my Lizstian-like piano skills (or lack thereof!)

Coriolan, maybe I'll think about orchestrating them, once I get through the String Quartets, Symphonies, Variations, Concertos etc..! :D Needless to say, it will probably be a while!!

Once again, thanks so much. I hope that you all continue to enjoy these works as much as I did making them. Beethoven is my all-time favorite composer and these are done in homage of him!! So, thanks Mr. Beethoven for inspiring me and countless other people throughout the years!! May you have an eternal seat in the pantheon of music composers!!


Enjoy and let me know if I can be of any assistance to anyone,
Jonny

[Jerry W.]

Coriolan, maybe I'll think about orchestrating them, once I get through the String Quartets, Symphonies, Variations, Concertos etc..! :D Needless to say, it will probably be a while!!


Enjoy and let me know if I can be of any assistance to anyone,
Jonny

Jonny,
Don't forget "Fidelio"! By the time you are ready to do THAT, GPO's Ultimate Fantabulous Super-Spectacular Choir with the optional Opera Upgrade will be ready!!!

Seriously - you have really done a spectacular job on these - sheesh! Orchestrating piano music - especially Beethoven, should be a fun and exciting task.

Jerry

[trentpmcd]

Anyone dare to orchestrate? :rolleyes:
A few weeks ago I was listening to no. 8 (“Pathètique”) and suddenly heard a full orchestra in my head. I didn’t have paper or pencil or anything handy so when it was finished it was gone. Maybe someday I will recapture it. If I do I don’t know if I’d post the results – I’m sure a lot of people feel you shouldn’t mess with perfection – it would most likely be an exercise for myself only.

[Jonny Lost]

Jonny,
Don't forget "Fidelio"! By the time you are ready to do THAT, GPO's Ultimate Fantabulous Super-Spectacular Choir with the optional Opera Upgrade will be ready!!!

Jerry

Hey, that's right and I wouldn't have to deal with any diva's, well, except my computer.

Me - "OK computer, we are going to start playback at meas. 52."

Computer in an italian accent (don't ask me why!) - "No, I refuse. My rrram is all used up and my proccesor is to hot! I'm going to shut down and there's nothing you can say to stop me!"

Me - "Sheesh!!"

Trent, I may be in the minority here, but I see nothing wrong with orchestrating out anything. So, if you hear something, I think you should do it and I'd like to hear it. Just my opinion!

Jonny

[cptexas]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!
I'm trying to do the same with the Nutcracker Suite. But 32 piano sonatas??!!!!?! I would never have that kind of patience!
And great performances!!!
So much feeling in them!

Chris

EDIT: Ya know what, I've got this big fat book of ninteen Motzart piano sonatas...........
hmmmm................. :rolleyes:

[Garritan]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!
I'm trying to do the same with the Nutcracker Suite. But 32 piano sonatas??!!!!?! I would never have that kind of patience!
And great performances!!!
So much feeling in them!

Chris

EDIT: Ya know what, I've got this big fat book of ninteen Motzart piano sonatas...........
hmmmm................. :rolleyes:

Cptexas,

Almost the entire Nutcracker Ballet (including the entire Suite) has been sequenced using GPO. Please email and maybe we can use some of your sequences in next year's Northwest Ballet production of the Nutcracker.

Thanks,

Gary Garritan

PS: That Mozart Book is calling http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif