Pianist Ivo Pogorelich has concertized and seen some of his performances recorded, but this album, released in 2019, was his first studio release in two decades. Pogorelich has always been more popular with the public than with critics and the musical establishment, although he has had strong defenders such as Martha Argerich (who resigned from a Warsaw prize jury when he was eliminated in an early round). This album, indeed, was commercially successful right out of the box, and it delivers everything Pogorelich's fans ...
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Pianist Ivo Pogorelich has concertized and seen some of his performances recorded, but this album, released in 2019, was his first studio release in two decades. Pogorelich has always been more popular with the public than with critics and the musical establishment, although he has had strong defenders such as Martha Argerich (who resigned from a Warsaw prize jury when he was eliminated in an early round). This album, indeed, was commercially successful right out of the box, and it delivers everything Pogorelich's fans might have hoped for. He is a total freethinker, which is great if you like him, idiosyncratic if not, but he's certainly never dull. The program begins with a pair of two-movement Beethoven sonatas that have always been seen as representative of the lyrical, pastoral side of his output. Plunge right in and sample the first track, the first movement of the Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54. Marked "In tempi di minuetto," this movement is generally taken as gently humorous, quiet,...
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