Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 109, 110 and 111 – review

Alexei Lubimov(Zig-Zag Territoires)It was fascinating to listen to Alexei Lubimov playing Beethoven's last three sonatas on an Alois Graff piano of 1828, just a few days after hearing Maurizio Pollini's magisterial accounts of the same works in the Royal Festival Hall in London. It's a measure of Lubimov's musical intelligence that though the sound world of these performances is so far removed from the power of Pollini's modern Steinway, interpretatively they stand up very well to the comparison...

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