Murray Perahia Archive
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas “Hammerklavier” & “Moonlight” – Murray Perahia, piano – DGG
Murray Perahia offers two distinct Beethoven sonatas from polar aspects of his idiosyncratic Romanticism. BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”; Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 “Moonlight” – Murray Perahia, piano – DGG 470 8353, 55:42 (2/9/18) [Distr. by Universal] ****: Beethoven in 1818 had composed relatively few pieces, and the arrival of a new Broadwood instrument suddenly impelled him from his creative lassitude. The great range and potent sonority of this keyboard approximated, for Beethoven, the “symphonic” equivalent that he had imagined but could never quite realize. The ubiquitous interval of a third has become an ironic fixture in a work so innately vast in scale that its effect as a connecting tissue might seem trivial, especially given the breadth of the gestures that run rampant in the opening movement. The “competition” or juxtaposition, of conjunct, thirds and disjunct, leaping, block-chord, double-dotted figures continues, offset by cascades of scales, the sonorities of which sound like pearly music boxes. The progression prefigures the “Handelian” overture for The Consecration of the House, with its development marked by displacements of the original B-flat harmony and into D and G Major. In a […]
Murray Perahia plays BACH Keyboard Concertos – Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/ Murray Perahia, piano and conductor – Sony (3 CDs)
Perahia’s stylish realization of the complete Bach keyboard concertos sets a new watermark for color, fluency and devotional intensity in these virtuoso showpieces.
BRAHMS: Handel Variations, Op. 24; Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79; Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118; Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119 – Murray Perahia, piano – Sony
Perahia brings power and liquid energy to the Brahms keyboard oeuvre, the Handel Variations a new classic of its kind.
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