2CDs
BEETHOVEN Sonatas 14 ("Moonlight"), 24, 27 & 32
BRAHMS Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel
Variations on a theme by Paganini • Rhapsodies, Op.79/1 + 2 & 119/4
[In] the four Beethoven sonatas... the structural contours are drawn very boldly. When the music demands it, however... there can also be a disarming delicacy to act as an effective foil. The opening movement of Op.111 is pretty explosive, great washes of sound leading one through with an inevitable momentum to the Arietta. This is a splendorous reading: rich-toned and wonderfully steady. Gramophone (UK)