ANTON RUBINSTEIN - Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 & 4 - Han Chen
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Read MoreAnton Rubinstein: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 and 4
Anton Rubinstein stood at the heart of Russian musical life for nearly half a century and had a profound influence on generations of Russian musicians, including Tchaikovsky. His piano sonatas reveal a composer intent on uniting intellect and passion within a symphonic conception of the keyboard. With its heroic, noble themes, the Third Piano Sonata was Rubinstein's own favourite of the set. The final Piano Sonata No. 4 represents the composer at the height of his creative command, pouring a lifetime of emotions into a single piece and distilling the paradoxical tensions between intellect and impulse, Germanic structure and Russian ardour.
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"... pianist Han Chen digs deep below the music's agitated and hyper-romantic surface and manages to extract its finer poetic details, buried under the flurry of notes in the thick of which he sails through without a hint of technical challenge."— Classical Music Sentinel
