Pianist Sunwook Kim has parlayed some big competition victories into a flourishing career focusing on Beethoven, Brahms, and other 19th century music. The late sonatas of Beethoven are often taken to be works that pianists should take up later in life in order to better appreciate their profundities, but Kim has fearlessly taken on the Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), and now he turns to the composer's final three sonatas. The results are distinctive. This is a situation in which sampling won ...
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Pianist Sunwook Kim has parlayed some big competition victories into a flourishing career focusing on Beethoven, Brahms, and other 19th century music. The late sonatas of Beethoven are often taken to be works that pianists should take up later in life in order to better appreciate their profundities, but Kim has fearlessly taken on the Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), and now he turns to the composer's final three sonatas. The results are distinctive. This is a situation in which sampling won't quite put across the flavor of the artist's work. It might seem on cursory acquaintance that Kim has turned in a performance by the numbers, but his are actually fully thought-out readings. In works that are often seen as rather heroic despite their late-life mystical qualities, Kim keeps to the quiet side, seeking out long, graceful lines and devoting his virtuosic powers mainly to the deep perorations in the big variation sets of the Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, and...
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