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What you will get is a new sense of the sheer physicality of the music…What’s fascinating about Levit’s whole cycle is the crazy tempos at which he takes the first Allegros and Prestos…Where... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…
Those who are searching for perfection can stop here...this set, the first solo recording from Russo-German pianist Igor Levit, sets a new standard that will be very difficult to surpass...I... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
19th Aug 2013
Catalogue No: 88883747352
Label: Sony
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Instrumental
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Newcomer Award
Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
From the first note, Osborne’s kinship with the composer is everywhere apparent and he conveys the vast contrasts of the last three sonatas unerringly...What is particularly winning about this... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019More…
Release Date:
3rd May 2019
Catalogue No: CDA68219
Label: Hyperion
Length: 63 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Recording of the Month
Record Review, 18th May 2019, Record of the Week
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
This disc is of sublime music, gloriously played, and it is one of those occasions when it seems superfluous to say much more…What Sunwook Kim brings to [the last three sonatas], as he also does... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
30th Apr 2021
Catalogue No: ACC30527
Label: Accentus Music
Length: 69 minutes
Awards:
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
There are few early-instrument practitioners who can match Brautigam's music insight and technical prowess...there are no holds barred in his impressively passionate account of Op. 111's opening... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Wilhelm Kempff was the most inspirational of Beethoven pianists. Those who have cherished his earlier stereo cycle for its magical spontaneity will find Kempff's qualities even more intensely... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…
…appropriately enough this final volume ends with the last sonata triptych of Opp. 109-111. Lewis plays all three works with characteristic warmth and beauty of tone, and you're not likely to... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Brendel's set is among the most distinguished Beethoven playing of the analogue era. The recordings, made in the 1970s, are most realistic and satisfying in the CD transfers. — Penguin Guide, 2010 edition, 3 out of 4 starsMore…
Catalogue No: 4383742
Label: Decca
Series: Duo
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Awards:
Building a Library, November 2001, Also Recommended