Angela Hewitt presents a fourth volume in her acclaimed series of
Beethoven’s piano sonatas, which has delighted her fans worldwide.
The
little-known Sonata in B flat major, Op 22, the last of Beethoven’s
‘early’ sonatas, is recorded alongside Op 31 No 3 (sometimes known as
‘La chasse’, or ‘The Hunt’, because of its tumultuous Presto con fuoco
finale). The album is concluded with Op 101, of which the journalist for
the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in Leipzig wrote: ‘Truly,
here in his 101st composition admiration and renewed respect take hold
of us, when we wander along strange, never trodden paths with the great
painter of the soul’, going on to enthuse about the most beautiful
colours and pictures in Beethoven’s new Piano Sonata.
Hewitt’s uncluttered clarity of thought and inspired structural pacing
pay even greater dividends in the glorious A major Sonata Op 101 (No
28). Hewitt captures its mood of glowing contentment to perfection,
climaxing in a fugally inflected finale of exultant profundity. Hewitt’s
approach recaptures the sense of wonderment experienced by the
composer’s contemporaries. Not since the great Hans Richter-Haaser has a
pianist produced Beethoven playing of such trance-like purity and
vision. It’s been three years since we had the last instalment in this
series (this is volume four)—let's hope we don’t have to wait as long
for the next' (Sinfini.com)
Comentarios
Publicar un comentario