Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1, 18 & 30

Tomasz Ritter, winner of the Bruges Festival Competition 2024, here follows the traditional overview of Beethoven’s musical language and devotes his recital to three sonatas drawn from the three creative periods: op. 2/1 (1795), op. 31/3 (1802) and op. 109 (1820). Ritter has also chosen three instruments that are close to those Beethoven played and reflect the evolution of piano construction: two Viennese instruments copied from originals by Anton Walter and Nanette Streicher, and an original Broadwood piano that is almost identical to the one the famous English piano maker gave the composer.