This month's gramophone carries an interview with Murray Perahia in which he says that he's just starting out on a (commissioned) long term project of editing the Beethoven sonatas. He will be recording them as he finishes each new performing version, starting with a forthcoming Cd with the ASMF, cond by Perahia, of the Beethoven String Quartet op. 127 transcribed for string orch. and a coupling of Perahia's solo performance of the Sonata op. 101. As Sony have been releasing all his recent stuff on SACD, that seems to mean that we can now look forward, starting soon and to come over a number of years, to a complete SACD Beet. sonata cycle from one of the finest pianists on the planet.
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