Alexei Lubimov
(Zig-Zag Territoires)
It was fascinating to listen to Alexei Lubimov playing Beethoven's last three sonatas on an Alois Graff piano of 1828, just a few days after hearing Maurizio Pollini's magisterial accounts of the same works in the Royal Festival Hall in London. It's a measure of Lubimov's musical intelligence that though the sound world of these performances is so far removed from the power of Pollini's modern Steinway, interpretatively they stand up very well to the comparison. Performances of the late Beethoven piano sonatas on instruments of his time are rare ? though because the instrument itself was evolving so rapidly during the composer's lifetime, and the piano writing in his late works pushes beyond the boundaries of what was practical at the time, it's hard to agree on the instruments on which they should be played. Lubimov uses an instrument made two years after Beethoven's death because of the tonal range it offers, and he exploits those keyboard colours, the evenness of the tone and the articulacy of its lower registers quite wonderfully, allowing him to shape his playing without a trace of self-consciousness. It's a totally enthralling disc.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/24/beethoven-piano-sonatas-lubimov-review
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