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Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Genres:
Instrumental » Piano Solos » Piano Sonatas
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Krystian Zimerman plays Liszt
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Coinciding with the death of his mother and the birth of his daughter, these recordings were intensely personal for Zimerman. The Concertos are scintillating, the Sonata Olympian. —
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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the intensity doesn’t let up, but neither does the quality of the playing...Indebted to Bach and to Liszt, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica can be an impenetrable work. Levit’s approach is lucid... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Hewitt allows [the Sonata's] huge single-movement span to unfold with a sense of space and a purposeful clarity - qualities akin to the manner of Beethoven's late sonatas...Hewitt, a hugely... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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You can think of this impressive release as a two-disc illustration of its title or simply as a pair of satisfying, carefully programmed Liszt recitals...I cannot recommend it too highly. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 12th February 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Instrumental
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Hamelin comes up with one of the finest recordings [of the Sonata] I've yet heard. Certainly I can't think of one where Liszt's immense single-movement design hangs together better. Under Hamelin's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Grosvenor conjures a brand of full and rounded keyboard sonority different from that of many of his contemporaries, and recalls the giants of an earlier generation (Busoni, for instance, or... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Levanon is undaunted by Liszt’s Sonata, giving a performance of heroic sweep. A powerful player, the 18-year-old is nimble and articulate in the virtuoso passages, dramatic with the rhetorical... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent
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It’s been worth the wait. Each piece reflects absolute clarity of intention, even in the case of the longest and most episodic one, ‘Ricordanza’...The Sonata in B minor gets a noble reading... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Even in an impossibly competitive field Demidenko's Liszt Sonata stands out among the most imperious and articulate. His opening is precisely judged and once the Sonata is under its inflammatory... —
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Building a Library, July 2005, Budget Choice
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