Beethoven: Appassionata, Les Adieux & Waldstein
Piano Sonatas
Olga Pashchenko (piano)
She’s a musician of immense skill with a strong point of view. Her choice of this beautiful Graf for her superbly recorded new Alpha disc seems fully justified. From the outset it is obvious...
Beethoven: Appassionata, Les Adieux & Waldstein
Piano Sonatas
Olga Pashchenko (piano)
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She’s a musician of immense skill with a strong point of view. Her choice of this beautiful Graf for her superbly recorded new Alpha disc seems fully justified. From the outset it is obvious...
About
Olga Pashchenko is in the process of creating a unique place for herself in the world of the keyboard: she moves with astounding ease and skill from the harpsichord to the fortepiano, the organ and the modern piano. After a recording of Beethoven’s variations in 2015 (awarded ffff by Télérama), the young pianist has now gone to the legendary Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, a venue she knows well since she regularly gives concerts within its walls, to record three monuments of the pianistic literature – the Appassionata, Les Adieux and Waldstein sonatas – on the original Conrad Graf piano of 1824 conserved there. She utilises all the sonic possibilities and the full palette of colours of this instrument made around fifteen years after the composition of these sonatas, three of the finest in the corpus of thirty-two that Hans von Bülow called ‘the New Testament of every pianist’.
Contents and tracklist
- Olga Pashchenko (fortepiano)
- Recorded: 22-24 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Beethoven House, Bonn, Germany
- Olga Pashchenko (fortepiano)
- Recorded: 22-24 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Beethoven House, Bonn, Germany
- Olga Pashchenko (fortepiano)
- Recorded: 22-24 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Beethoven House, Bonn, Germany
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Awards and reviews
October 2017
She’s a musician of immense skill with a strong point of view. Her choice of this beautiful Graf for her superbly recorded new Alpha disc seems fully justified. From the outset it is obvious that Pashchenko is the master of the Viennese piano, with its drastically scaled-down movements compared to those required for modern instruments, and the alternative expressive strategies it demands.
3rd August 2017
Pashchenko clearly relishes the range of sonority that this venerable instrument offers her...Most of all, though, she makes full use of the light, even touch of the keyboard, which gives her performances tremendous vitality...the outer movements of both the Waldstein and Les Adieux have genuinely athletic momentum.