Since you are interested in Piano Sonata No 2 / Etudes-tableaux, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
PROKOFIEV
Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 6 & 7 / Toccata in C major / etc Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] "A youthful virtuoso tackles Prokofiev head on and the results are thrilling." (Gramophone Awards Issue 2003) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas: Pathetique, Moonlight and Appassionata Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Kempf's insight into the character of each of these Olympian masterpieces is astonishing and is allied to formidable virtuosity and musicianship" (Sunday Telegraph). |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures from an Exhibition (with works by Balakirev & Ravel) Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - September 2008 - "Kempf storms back with a daunting programme powerfully played." |
J.S. BACH
Plays Bach: Partitas 4 & 6 Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] "Freddy Kempf is a singularly expressive and emotional pianist, almost a fossil from the nineteenth century, or at least the early twentieth. He plays these works as Chopin probably played them, perhaps as the early Liszt played them. There is not... |
LISZT
Etudes d'exacution transcendante Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] Critic's Choice American Record Guide 2001 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2 Freddy Kempf (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "[In the G minor concerto] Kempf is less flamboyant than some, perhaps seeking to make musical sense of the argument. The second movement is as lithe and scintillating as one might wish." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2010 |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 (with Schnittke - Piano Trio) Kempf Trio (Freddy Kempf, piano; Pierre Bensaid, violin; Alexander Chaushian, cello) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Anyone who doubts the spiritual desolation wrought by Soviet communism need only listen to this disc...The Shostakovich is impressively intense" The Telegraph, 12th February 2010 *** |