Sonatenabend

• Sonatenabend:
• Shilyaev, Mikhail
• Mozart

Product Description Stone Records is delighted to announce its first CD featuring pianist Mikhail Shilyaev, a rising star of the piano world, whose recent recordings have already received great critical acclaim. Shilyaev studied in Moscow and Munich before coming to the UK, where he has won numerous prizes and, in 2007, made his Wigmore Hall recital debut. He is now a junior fellow at London s Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. This CD is a wonderful selection of piano music originating from Vienna, featuring three groundbreaking composers with their own very individual takes on the piano sonata. Beautifully played, this sonata recital is a superbly entertaining account of the works, which show the innovation and the hereditary development of the sonata form, virtuosically exposed by Mozart, romantically matured by Beethoven, and taken to the edge of tonality by Berg. Review This off grouping of classics from Vienna's first and second schools is so well played that one happily accepts its rather strained rationale; Shilyaev is a natural Beethovenian, but his Berg has full bloodied lyricism. **** --BBC Music Magazine, Jan'15 Shilyaev renders both these miniatures and the larger sets of pieces with a fluency and panache that makes for diverting and also pleasurable listening. --International Record Review