Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 13, 27 no 2, 53 & 79 | Classical review

Steven Osborne(Hyperion)Steven Osborne's first foray into Beethoven on disc is also his first recording of genuinely mainstream classical repertory. It confirms that the qualities he has brought to a wide range of later works, from Liszt to Messiaen, transfer perfectly to some of the best known of all piano sonatas. Osborne plays the Moonlight, Pathétique and Waldstein sonatas here, together with the little G major work, Op 79, and even in such well traversed musical territory he regularly find...

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