Llŷr Williams's understated approach to Beethoven

Llŷr Williams's understated approach to Beethoven

'With Williams, expressiveness is all. He paradoxically achieves this through emotional restraint, and in a style which you might call ‘plain’, but which allows the individual character of each sonata to emerge vividly.’

Beethoven Unbound

Beethoven: Complete piano sonatas

Llŷr Williams (piano)

Signum Records SIGCD527

835:57 mins (12 discs)

Freya Parr

Published: July 4, 2018 at 1:37 pm

'With Williams, expressiveness is all. He paradoxically achieves this through emotional restraint, and in a style which you might call ‘plain’, but which allows the individual character of each sonata to emerge vividly.’

Beethoven Unbound

Beethoven: Complete piano sonatas

Llŷr Williams (piano)

Signum Records SIGCD527

835:57 mins (12 discs)

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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