After a first recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations acclaimed by the critics (Diapason d’Or, BBC, Guardian, Le Monde) Filippe 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.
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Thomas Deschamps - Classica magazine (France) - April 2020
Carsten Durer – Piano News (Germany) – March/April 2020
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