Browse: Berg - Piano Sonata, Op. 1

the luminous playing of the opening of Berg's Sonata Op. 1 tells us this is a pianist of rare sensitivity...Varjon's probing approach reveals the finest shades of harmonic colouring and places... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

...not only is the Liszt Sonata one uninterrupted outpouring, but Seong-Jin Cho also segues into it from the Berg. In the latter he finds great beauty in the way dark passions surge beneath the... — International Piano, September 2020 More…

Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

He might be termed the last of the great individualists among the pianist fraternity, an artist whose credo stems from his teacher, the great virtuoso Josef Hofmann. It is a school of personal... — The Telegraph More…

It's something of a challenge to recast Berg's Op. 1 Piano Sonata as a work for string sextet. …this arrangement, made by the Artemis Quartet's violinist Heime Müller, works wonderfully well.... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

When interviewed by Gramophone back in September 1989, Peter Hill said he felt he had things to say about the Schoenberg piano works which had not been said on record. Here is the complete vindication... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…