There are times when a new recoding by a well-known pianist and/or the use of a world-class Boesendorfer piano sheds brand new light into music that has been my great favorite for many years.
Today this applies to the Sonata #31 by Beethoven as performed by Andras Schiff.
This music was recorded just three months ago, and even though I am not a pianist, I hear aspects of this masterpiece that I have not experienced before. New ways that certain long musical lines in the score are reformatted into shorter runs that seemingly have deeper meaning.
See and hear for yourself as you listen to Mr. Schiff:
