Beethoven, L.V. / Zhang: Haochen Zhang Plays Beethoven & Liszt - SUPER-AUDIO CD

Haochen Zhang: Haochen Zhang Plays Beethoven & Liszt - SUPER-AUDIO CD

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Title:

Haochen Zhang Plays Beethoven & Liszt

Artist:

Haochen Zhang

Label:

Bis

Product Type:

SUPER-AUDIO CD

UPC:

7318599927817

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-03-07

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

HYBRID SACD

Following his recordings dedicated to Beethoven's piano concertos (BIS-2281) and Franz Liszt's Transcendental etudes (BIS-2681), the gold medal winner at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, Haochen Zhang, now brings these two composers together on this new recording with two summits of 19th-century piano literature: Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata and Liszt's Sonata in B minor. The Piano Sonata No. 29, the 'Hammerklavier', is the longest, richest and perhaps the most masterful of Beethoven's 32 sonatas. In it, he pushes the instrument and the performer to their limits, and even beyond. It's immense complexity, the utter diversity of it's movements and it's daring structural conception give the sonata an unrivalled place in Beethoven's œuvre. It was very rarely played during Beethoven's lifetime, and Franz Liszt contributed to it's discovery with a concert performance in Paris that has since gone down in history. No stranger to the description 'unperformable', Liszt also wanted to write 'the' piano sonata that would reconcile his own approach to pianism with Beethoven's legacy. His Sonata in B minor, a monumental work that transforms the piano into a virtual orchestra, is a landmark work that sums up Liszt's genius.

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