Gramophone Magazine
February 2023
Editor's Choice

Anne Queffélec (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

To echo Beethoven’s own words, “Music is the only incorporeal introduction to the world of knowledge... a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy... reaching beyond even the starry sky to the original source.”

That is indeed where the epiphanies of the ultima verba uttered by the last three sonatas take us: on a journey of initiation that could not be undertaken in reverse. Let us listen to it... “The rest is silence.” - Anne Queffélec

"Here you have the sense that she has been pondering these pieces for decades – and they emerge as personal and deeply considered." - Gramophone Magazine, February 2023.