Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert & Beethoven

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spaciousness is [not] the most surprising aspect here…more challenging to many ears will be the steadiness of the E flat Impromptu and the liberally applied hesitations of the A flat. Allied... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Release Date: 15th Jan 2016
Catalogue No: 4795426
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

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15th January 2016
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Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D899 (Op. 90)

Work length30:05

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Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Recorded: 2016
Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

No. 1 in C Minor (Allegro molto moderato)

Track length10:34

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No. 2 in E-Flat Major (Allegro)

Track length5:45

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No. 3 in G-Flat Major (Andante)

Track length5:24

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No. 4 in A-Flat Major (Allegretto)

Track length8:22

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Schubert: Klavierstücke (3), D946

Work length34:55

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Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Recorded: 2016
Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

No. 1 in E-Flat Minor (Allegro assai)

Track length14:10

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No. 2 in E-Flat Major (Allegretto)

Track length13:33

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No. 3 in C Major (Allegro)

Track length7:12

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'

Work length52:43

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Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Recorded: 2016
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg

I. Allegro

Track length13:43

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II. Scherzo. Assai vivace - Presto - Prestissimo - Tempo I

Track length3:30

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III. Adagio sostenuto

Track length21:28

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IV. Largo - Allegro risoluto

Track length14:02

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Rameau: Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin

Work length12:22

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Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Recorded: 2016
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg

II. Les tendres plaintes

Track length3:35

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XVII. Les tourbillons

Track length2:24

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XVIII. Les cyclopes

Track length3:59

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XV. La follette

Track length2:24

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Rameau: Suite in G major from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin

Work length1:53

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Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Recorded: 2016
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg

VI. Les sauvages

Track length1:53

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Excerpt, Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117

Work length6:17

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Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Recorded: 2016
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg

No. 2 in B-Flat Minor

Track length6:17

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Recording of the Week, Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert and Beethoven

15th January 2016

James listens to Grigory Sokolov play Beethoven's Hammerklavier and works by Schubert.

Grigory Sokolov is an exceptional artist. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading pianists and adored by his audience in sold-out concerts – dedicated to his art, and nothing else.

His debut album on Deutsche Grammophon “Salzburg Recital” was a huge success and is the best-selling frontline core classical release this year to date.

With Schubert & Beethoven we have another hit in our hands: Grigory Sokolov plays late masterworks by Schubert, including the much-loved Impromptus, and Beethoven’s mighty “Hammerklavier” Sonata, finishing with six impeccable encores by Rameau and Brahms

This outstanding recital is culled from concerts in Warsaw and Salzburg. Salzburger Nachrichten claimed: “Wherever he plays, the utopia of ultimate satisfaction is closer than ever… “

An hour of Schubert comprising some of his best-loved piano music (the Impromptus in A flat and G flat major, with rippling arpeggios and timeless melodies), and three of his late piano works that search out the depths of his art (look at an excerpt here: https://youtu.be/oOVJBE5Utvc )

Beethoven’s longest piano sonata – one of the famous “late” sonatas – explores the whole range of the extended keyboard then available to him. It lasts over 45 minutes and is one of his most over-the-top works –with its huge fugal finale that has been known to drive listeners crazy. Sokolov has it all under control.

After Mozart & Chopin this new live recording is another pianistic landmark release.

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spaciousness is [not] the most surprising aspect here…more challenging to many ears will be the steadiness of the E flat Impromptu and the liberally applied hesitations of the A flat. Allied to undoubted pianistic mastery, such unorthodoxy certainly commands attention [and there are] twinkling Rameau and dreamy Brahms encores

15th January 2016

For me, part of what makes Sokolov such an extraordinary pianist is his use of rubato and his flexibility with tempo: the way he will fractionally delay the second beat of a bar so as to highlight an accent in the first Schubert Klavierstück, for instance, or the space he creates by extending the quaver rests at the end of each phrase of the fourth Impromptu just to give a lift to the music, is really something rather special.

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