Grigory Sokolov Archive

In 1850 Robert Schumann collected some of his discarded music and rearranged some of it to come up with the compositions titled “Bunte Blätter”and the Albumblatter. Although fine works, they don’t and will never attain …

Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on 18 April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at the Central …

The opening of Brahms’ Intermezzo in B-flat Minor (Opus 117, No. 2) is astonishing. The piece is off and running from the start, suggesting multiple tonal regions. Brahms displays his mastery of ambiguity, that makes …

Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad on April 8, 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at the Central Special School of …

Beethoven composed this sonata in 1800, and this work was published two years later under the title “Grande Sonate” because the composer wanted to demonstrate the resumption of an earlier four-movement sonata srructure. Beethoven proudly …