Grigory Sokolov Performs Schubert’s Impromptu Opus 142, #2
The Schubert Impromptu No 2 in A flat minor is really mostly built off a theme so warm and touching I would still love it if the piece just ended after the first repeat. However, …
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Grigory Sokolov Plays Rameau’s “Les Sauvages”
Today, so many years after being composed, we are still struck with the astonishing beauty and dramatic power of so much of Rameau’s music. The heart-stopping vocal quartet in the third entrée can still bring …
Intermezzo Opus 117, Number 2 by Brahms
When I listen or think of Johannes Brahms, the following thoughts enter my mind: Austria; Bad Gastein (Resort area where the composer spent summers); Ah… Clara Schumann whom Brahms loved. The symphonies #2 and 4; …
The Sonata KV457 by Mozart
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed and completed in 1784. It was published in December of 1785 together with the Fantasy in C minor, K. …
Gregory Sokolov Plays the Brahms Intermezzo Opus 117, #2
Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on the 18th of April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at …