Liszt: Piano Music
Lucille Chung (piano)
Given the more than 200 recording of the B minor Sonata currently available, it’s difficult to make an individual statement in the piece without veering into the realms of self-indulgent eccentricity....
Liszt: Piano Music
Lucille Chung (piano)
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Given the more than 200 recording of the B minor Sonata currently available, it’s difficult to make an individual statement in the piece without veering into the realms of self-indulgent eccentricity....
About
Internationally renowned soloist Lucille Chung performs a programme of virtuosic and beguiling works by Franz Liszt. One of the first female students of the iconic Russian pianist Lazar Berman at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, Chung has won numerous awards for her performances of Liszt’s music, including the B minor Sonata that features on this programme – although Lucille describes in her introduction to the programme how Berman “... for a time doubted that a diminutive lady with hands spanning a 9th (although I can now stretch a 10th on a good day) would ever succeed in playing Liszt well ... Mr Berman came around.”
Renowned for her “blazing gutsy performance[s]” (The Washington Post), Lucille Chung was born in Montréal and has been acclaimed for her “stylish and refined performances” by Gramophone magazine, “combining vigour and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance” (Le Soir).
Contents and tracklist
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Awards and reviews
June 2018
Given the more than 200 recording of the B minor Sonata currently available, it’s difficult to make an individual statement in the piece without veering into the realms of self-indulgent eccentricity. Yet Chung manages to do it, and with the sort of go-for-broke playing that one rarely encounters these days. Her sound is particularly impressive, along with a shapely and expressive singing line, as well as plenty of speed and power when called for.
