Credits:

Beethoven, L. Van

Description:

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Schumann's Grand Sonata to Romanticism! Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a giant star of French pianism. Bavouzet, who is renowned as an authority on French music such as Debussy and Ravel, and who has earned a reputation for his recordings of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and others on the Chandos label, now moves into Romantic music. He recorded a collection of piano works by Robert Schumann, centering on the "Grand Sonata" (Piano Sonata No. 3). Bavouzet first discovered the "Grand Sonata" in Horowitz's recordings in the 1980s. He then had the opportunity to perform and discuss it with Horowitz in Paris in 1985, and Bavze, like Horowitz, recorded it in a hybrid version combining elements of both the original 1835 version and the revised 1853 version. Following the Haydn and Mozart recordings, this Schumann recording uses a YAMAHA CFX model piano. Tokyo M-Plus