Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
[ Chandos / 9 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Thursday 15 February 2018
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's landmark series of Beethoven's complete sonatas is now available as a complete set and at a very special price. Bavouzet has taken this programme to the most prestigious venues around the world and continues to perform it. Gramophone has nominated him several times for its Artist of the Year award, arguing that 'Bavouzet's chronological journey through the Beethoven sonatas has not been surpassed in the last 30 years. Yes, it's that good." Repackaged as a box of nine individual albums, and each including the original booklets with their usual personal 'performer's note,' this is a must have.
"At its best, his playing is engaging and fresh; there's never a hint of staleness about even the most familiar music...While some might feel increasingly short-changed by these performances, others who admire the polish and assurance of Bavouzet's playing as well as the surface slickness that goes with it, may well enjoy every one of these performances." The Guardian, 16th January 2014 **** (Vol 2)
"Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has given us a set of the Beethoven piano sonatas with clarity of vision, while at the same time full of vitality and breathtaking virtuosity. He is indeed one of those pianists who can make Beethoven sound 'easy', giving us the accessible while taking little away from that feeling of heroic achievement from both composer and performer." MusicWeb Feb 2018
"Jean-Efflam Bavouzet looks positively coy on the cover of his new Beethoven set and lightness and humour abound throughout the..discs. The French pianist made his name with Ravel and Haydn, and the older composer comes to mind when the opening theme of the first Sonata shoots elegantly upwards." William Dart NZ Herald
