Solo and trio performances, some recorded in the studio,
some on the gig, and some at home (and in some cases not
particularly well — sorry!)

All arrangements by Mike West

Title

Composer

Waltz of the Moon Babies

Mike West

Embraceable You

George Gershwin

The Sugar Glider

Mike West

Never No Lament

Duke Ellington

If We Could Love Again

Mike West

I Remember You

Victor Schertzinger

The Road from Olduvai

Mike West

Red Top

Gene Ammons

2 Degrees East, 3  Degrees West

John Lewis

The Very Thought of You

Ray Noble

Cosmic Beige Blues

Mike West

Have You Met Miss Jones

Richard Rogers

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

Harry Barris

Solar

Chuck Wayne/
Miles Davis

Celia

Bud Powell

These Foolish Things

Jack Stratchey

Body & Soul

Johnny Green

I Should Care

Sammy Cahn

If I Were a Bell

Frank Loesser

How Long Has This Been Going On?

George Gershwin

Love For Sale

Cole Porter

Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise

Sigmund Romberg

Someone to Watch over me

George Gershwin

Sweet Lorraine

Cliff Burwell

 

And now for something
completely different

Beethoven's complete sonata cycle for piano,
brilliantly played by Stephen Kovacevich and
recorded between 1992 and 2003 on the EMI
Classics label, has been discontinued and can no
longer be obtained through EMI. Below are links to
my own mp3 conversions of this magnificent set.

Performer: Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (b. 1940)

The linked mp3 files have unique filenames based
on disc number and track number, so that they will
always remain in the correct sequence when sorted
by filename. Even if you download all the files into
a single folder, there's no need to rename them.

The formal title of each movement is not in the
filename, but rather is embedded within the file,
and will be displayed on your mp3 player.

Here's a printable tracklist.

You'll find information about the collection on the
EMI website.

Disc 1

Piano Sonata in F Minor Op.2 No.1

I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Menuetto (Allegretto) and Trio

IV. Prestissimo

 

Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2

I. Allegro vivace

II. Largo appassionato

III. Scherzo (Allegro) and Trio

IV. Rondo (Grazioso)

 

Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major Op. 2 No. 3

I. Allegro con brio

II. Adagio

III. Scherzo (Allegro) and Trio

IV. Allegro assai

 

Disc 2

Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major Op. 7

I. Allegro molto e con brio

II. Largo, con gran espressione

III. Allegro

IV. Rondo (Poco allegretto e grazioso)

 

Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op.10 No.1

I. Allegro molto e con brio

II. Adagio molto

III. Finale (Prestissimo)

 

Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major Op.10 No.2

I. Allegro

II. Allegretto

III. Presto

 

Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major Op.10 No.3

I. Presto

II. Largo e mesto

III.Menuetto - Allegro

IV. Rondo - Allegro

 

Disc 3

Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 "Pathétique"

I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio

II. Adagio cantabile

III. Rondo (Allegro)

 

Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major Op. 14 No. 1

I. Allegro

II. Allegretto

III. Rondo - Allegro comodo

 

Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major Op. 14 No. 2

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Scherzo - Allegro assai

 

Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major Op. 22

I. Allegro con brio

II. Adagio con molta espressione

III. Minuetto

IV. Rondo - Allegretto

 

Disc 4

Piano Sonata No.12 in A flat major Op. 26

Andante con variazoni

Variation I

Variation II

Variation III

Variation IV

Variation V

Scherzo (Allegro molto)

Marcia funèbre sulla morte d'un Eroe - Maestoso andante

Allegro

 

Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major Op. 27 No. 1

I. Andante - Allegro - Tempo I

II. Allegro molto e vivace

III. Adagio con espressione

IV. Allegro vivace

 

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"

I. Adagio sostenuto 6:32

II. Allegretto 2:40

III. Presto agitato 7:10

 

Piano Sonata No 15 in D major Op.28 "Pastoral"

I. Allegro 9:32

II. Andante 6:10

III. Scherzo - Allegro vivace 2:21

IV. Rondo - Allegro ma non troppo 4:46

 

Disc 5

Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major Op. 31 No. 1

I. Allegro vivace

II. Adagio grazioso

III. Rondo (Allegretto - Adagio - Rondo)

 

Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest"

I. Largo - Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Allegretto

 

Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major Op. 31 No. 3

I. Allegro

II. Scherzo (Allegretto vivace) - Trio

III. Menuetto (Moderato e grazioso) - Trio

IV. Presto con fuoco

 

Piano Sonata No.19 in G minor Op. 49 No. 1

I. Andante

II. Rondo (Allegro)

 

Piano Sonata No.20 in G major Op. 49 No. 2

I. Allegro, ma non troppo

II. Tempo di Menuetto

 

Disc 6

Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "'Waldstein"

I. Allegro con brio

II. Introduzione (Adagio molto)

III. Rondo (Allegretto moderato)

 

Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major Op. 54

I. In tempo d'un minuetto

II. Allegro

 

Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 "Appassionata"

I. Allegro assai

II. Andante con moto

III. Allegro, ma non troppo - Presto

 

Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major Op. 78

I. Adagio cantabile - Allegro ma non troppo

II. Allegro vivace

 

Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major Op. 79

I. Presto alla tesdesca

II. Andante

III. Vivace

 

Disc 7

Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major Op.81a, 'Les Adieux'

I. Adagio - Allegro "Les Adieux"

II. Andante espressivo "L'Absence"

III. Vivacissimamente - Poco andante "Le Retour"

 

Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90

I. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck

II. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen

 

Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major Op. 101

I. Allegretto, ma non troppo

II. Vivace alla Marcia

III. Adagio, ma non troppo

IV. Allegro

 

Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109

I. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo

II. Prestissimo

III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung (Andante molto catabile ed espressivo)

IV. Variation 1 (Molto espressivo)

V. Variation 2 (Leggiermente)

VI. Variation 3 (Allegro vivace)

VII. Variation 4 (Etwas langsamer als das Thema (Un poco meno andante cio e un poco più adagio come il tema)

VIII. Variation 5 (Allegro, ma non troppo)

IX. Variation 6 Tempo I del tema (Cantabile)

 

Disc 8

Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"

I. Allegro

II. Scherzo (Assai vivace) - Presto

III. Adagio sostenuto (Appassionato e con molto sentimento)

IV. Largo - Allegro risoluto

 

Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major Op. 110

I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo

II. Allegro molto

III. Adagio, ma non troppo

IV. Adagio, ma non troppo (Arioso dolente)

V. Fuga (Allegro ma non troppo)

VI. L'istesso tempo di Arioso

VII. L'istesso tempo della Fuga poi a poi di nuovo vivente

 

Disc 9

Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato

II. Arietta (con variazioni) - Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile

 

Eleven Bagatelles, Op.119

1. Allegretto

2. Andante con moto

3. à l'Allemande

4. Andante cantabile

5. Risoluto

6. Andante

7. Allegro, ma non troppo

8. Moderato cantabile

9. Vivace moderato

10. Allegramente

11. Andante, ma non troppo

 

Six Bagatelles, Op.126

1. Andante con moto

2. Allegro

3. Andante

4. Presto

5. Quasi allegretto

6. Presto