Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
Steven Osborne (piano)
These accounts of the Moonlight and Pathétique are both clean and powerful...Osborne performs the little G major Sonata, Op. 79 with great clarity and almost severely classical articulation...Perhaps...
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
Steven Osborne (piano)
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These accounts of the Moonlight and Pathétique are both clean and powerful...Osborne performs the little G major Sonata, Op. 79 with great clarity and almost severely classical articulation...Perhaps...
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Steven Osborne has been performing Beethoven live in concert for many years, always to great acclaim. Now for the first time he has committed these extraordinary performances to disc. It is clear from listening to the opening movement of the ‘Moonlight’ that this release will establish him firmly as one of the great Beethoven pianists of today. Performances of such passionate humility, such musical intelligence, such subtlety and yet such instinctive understanding of the music are rare indeed.
This disc features three of Beethoven’s most celebrated sonatas and the miniature Op 79.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
June 2010
These accounts of the Moonlight and Pathétique are both clean and powerful...Osborne performs the little G major Sonata, Op. 79 with great clarity and almost severely classical articulation...Perhaps the most intriguing performance here is of the Waldstein's finale
June 2010
There is the familiar pellucid tone, the thoughtful and clear phrasing...Along the way, Osborne offers some lovely touches...no one could deny his charm in the Moonlight's Allegretto
20th May 2010
even in such well traversed musical territory [Osborne] regularly finds something new and interesting to say. There's nothing self-consciously quirky in his playing, but he does have that very special ability to make music that you thought you knew inside out seem fresh and totally alive.
7th May 2010
This Beethoven disc...makes one marvel at the way Osborne’s own personality seems able to ally itself with the composer’s, in the way he illuminates aspects of style, structure and substance with clarity, subtlety and dynamism...these performances, deeply thought, vibrant and humane, are full of... revealing insights.
30th April 2010
Throughout the disc his rhythms are crisp and springing, but never fussily overclipped. His tone is similarly “modern”...At the same time Osborne’s brisk contemporary approach never distorts the traditional Beethoven glories...And all are recorded with Hyperion’s usual finesse.
