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Beethoven - Piano Sonatas opp. 106 & 111

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA591

Barcode: 3760014195914

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 31st January 2020

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Piano Sonata no.29 in B flat major, op.106 'Hammerklavier'
Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor, op.111

Artists

Filippo Gorini (piano)

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Piano Sonata no.29 in B flat major, op.106 'Hammerklavier'
Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor, op.111

Artists

Filippo Gorini (piano)

About

After a first recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations acclaimed by the critics (Diapason d’Or, BBC, Guardian, Le Monde) Filippo Gorini, a student of Alfred Brendel and winner of the first Prize and Audience Prize of the Bonn Beethoven Competition in 2015, pursues a fast-growing career. Here he returns to Beethoven and tackles the perilous Sonata no.29, known as the ‘Hammerklavier’, which the composer himself said would pose a challenge for future generations, along with the Sonata no.32, which according to Thomas Mann represents the supreme accomplishment of and ‘farewell’ to sonata form.

‘This is, it soon becomes evident, one of the great interpretations of one of Beethoven's most invigorating, far-ranging and finally ethereal works. Gorini is as alive as anyone to the humour in the work, which overstressed can get tiresome on repeated hearings, but which this pianist realises is more demonic than merely jovial or surprising.’ – BBC Music Magazine ***** (Diabelli Variations)