Composers: Beethoven
Compositions: Complete piano sonatas
Performers: Igor Levit p
Catalogue Number: Sony Classical 19075843182

Igor Levit’s attention-grabbing debut on disc with the five last piano sonatas in 2013 announced a Beethovenian of considerable resources and rewards, an impression favourably inked in by this commanding, if occasionally idiosyncratic, survey of all 32 sonatas.

It’s an ambitious, not to say audacious, undertaking, the catalogue not short of reference recordings of a body of work anointed...