Liszt Piano Sonata
Hamelin trumps all the aces in a masterly and virtuoso Liszt recital
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Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 5/2011
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 79
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDA67760
Author: Bryce Morrison
Even so, pride of place must go to the Sonata, where Hamelin tempers Liszt’s rhetoric with a measure of dignity and restraint. His inwardness and lyricism in the slow scales at the end of the central Andante (the Sonata’s nodal and expressive centre) will touch and delight all those who warm to Liszt’s deeper qualities. Yet once again, the overall mastery is prodigious and, if there are moments when it is held in reserve, there are others where Hamelin comes at you with all guns blazing – a quality to enthrall and stupefy. In short, this is a pianist to trump all aces. Hyperion’s sound and presentation are as immaculate as ever, the reproduction of János Hofbauer’s The Castle of Dévény, Hungary entirely apt.
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