| Label: Zig-Zag Territories Catalog: ZZT110103 Format: CD Alexei Lubimov, Pianoforte Alois Graff (1828)Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas op. 109, 110, 111 «These sonatas to be played 'uncomfortably', 'intangibly'... transcend the piano and its own time.» Alexei Lubimov Alexei Lubimov offered in 2010 Impromptus of Schubert welcome by the press: the result is breathtaking. Aside from the crispest E- flat Impromptu, the bitter grandeur of the A-flat major, and the delectable translucency of the instruments, what is truly startling is the "sung" melody of the G flat major. Stunning. The Independent on Sunday his is altogether a beautiful recital by a master pianist, and while ther's no shortage of fine recordings of these famous pieces, there has been non in my experience to equal Lubimov on instruments of Schubert's day. BBC Magazine ***** During the same recording session in Haarlem July 2009, Alexei Lubimov took on with the last three sonatas of Beethoven, Beethoven's musical testimony musical which Alexei Lubimov plays with all the mastery of a great russian pianist « a kind of russian Pollini » Alain Lompech Diapason. Price: $27.98 |