Release Date: 17 July 2015
Label: Arts Music
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 600554776422
Genres: Classical
Description
Pianist Maria Mazo, winner of the 2013 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna, makes her recording debut performing two of Beethoven's most important Piano Sonatas: the Sonata in C major op. 53, 'Waldstein' (in homage to its dedicatee, Count Waldstein), and the Sonata in F minor op. 57, 'Appassionata'.
Composed between 1803 and 1805 in the central period of Beethoven's output, these Sonatas mark the beginning of a new direction in Beethoven's piano writing and share a high degree of virtuosity and brilliance, although differing in terms of their poetic character and setting.
From a young age Maria Mazo was fascinated by Beethoven's music and it has been precisely her interpretations of some of these masterpieces that established the German-based Russian pianist on the international concert scene. She has won awards at several well-known competitions, including the Lodovici Prize awarded by Peter Donohoe during the 2013 Busoni Competition, and the Audience Prize at the 2014 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel-Aviv (playing with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch).
Personnel: Maria Mazo (piano)
Tracklisting
André Cluytens
André Cluytens
Orchestra of Eastern Netherlands & Gabriele Bellini
Tomaso Albinoni
Various Composers
Alessandro Mazzamuto
Arturo Sacchetti
Maria Mazo
Corrina Hewat
Saskia Coolen, Rainer Zipperling, Patrick Ayrton
New European Ensemble, Christopher Bouwman, Tito Munoz
Cristian Sandrin
Taz Modi
Various artists
Thomas Elwin and Lana Bode
New Dublin Voices
