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Beethoven: Appassionata, Les Adieux & Waldstein

Piano Sonatas

Olga Pashchenko (piano)

Beethoven: Appassionata, Les Adieux & Waldstein
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

I. Allegro con brio
Track length11:28
II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
Track length3:59
III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
Track length10:26
I. Allegro assai
Track length10:26
II. Andante con moto
Track length6:38
III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto
Track length8:55
I. Das Lebewohl. Adagio - Allegro
Track length7:05
II. Abwesenheit. Andante espressivo
Track length4:15
III. Das Wiedersehen. Vivacissimamente
Track length6:32

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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.
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