Llŷr Williams – review

Greyfriars Kirk, EdinburghLlÅ·r Williams's Beethoven is a challenge. Currently just over halfway through his complete run of the piano sonatas at Greyfriars – divvied up non-chronologically into 12 concerts over the span of the Edinburgh fringe – his playing is always technically commanding, but marked with a troubling musical perversity. Why do we attach certain adjectives to certain pieces of music? Usually, the opening of Opus 101 is beguiling, the second movement of Opus 109 is stormy â€...

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