Opus 110

2025

Beethoven’s late piano Sonatas are works which need to be approached with humility but also technical competence. After all, the pianist is in touch with some of the composer’s most profound thoughts.

For me to play a work such as this, with extraordinary sadness written into it is both a challenge and a privilege. Some of Beethoven’s most sorrowful music is contained here and despite the gradual unwinding of the tensions at the end one can’t but be affected by the memory of those heart-breaking  Arias

Its extraordinary range of moods, its brilliant structural integrity and demanding keyboard writing give any pianist who plays it a sense of accomplishment beyond the normal where genius is apparent and lasts a long time beyond the moment the player has taken his hands from the keys.