Gramophone Awards
2018
Shortlisted - Instrumental

Presto Recording of the Week
9th February 2018

Recording of the Month
Gramophone Magazine
March 2018

Murray Perahia (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'

"Perahia is artist enough to know that great art is never, of itself, ugly. It may be Beethoven’s instinct to push every component of the dauntingly complex contrapuntal finale [of the Hammerklavier] to its logical conclusion (and beyond) but Perahia, though honouring the intent, declines to turn the music into a rout. In matters of musical diction, lucidity matters." - Gramophone Magazine March 2018