Nelson Goerner

Integrity, modesty and poetic sophistication are the watchwords of Nelson Goerner's piano playing. A 'master goldsmith of the keyboard', according to Le Monde. Ideal for Beethoven's visionary, late sonatas. Liszt also reinvents the piano sonata. His monumental, single-movement Sonata in B flat is unique in the piano repertoire and sums up Liszt's genius in thirty minutes. Liszt dedicated his Sonata to Robert Schumann. His musical imagination reaches its peak in Carnival, a sequence of short dances and character pieces in which various figures are portrayed, including such existing personalities as Chopin and Paganini, as well as fictitious figures such as the impetuous Florestan and the melancholy Eusebius, Schumann's two alter egos who give shape to the two extremes of his rich emotional life.