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 Å“uvre. 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.
Tracks: 1.1 Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 'Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier'~I. Allegro 1.2 Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 'Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier'~II. Scherzo. Assai vivace 1.3 Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 'Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier'~III. Adagio sostenuto (Appassionato e con molto sentimento) 1.4 Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 'Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier'~IV. Largo - Allegro - Allegro risoluto (Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze) 1.5 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178~Lento assai - Allegretto energico - Grandioso - Recitativo 1.6 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178~Andante sostenuto - Quasi adagio 1.7 Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178~Allegro energico - Più mosso - Stretta quasi presto - Presto - Prestissimo - Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Lento assai
