"AVIE welcomes to the label Israeli-American pianist Benjamin Hochman with Homage to Schubert, pairing two contrasting Schubert Sonatas – the delicate and somewhat modest D664 in A major, and the brilliant and bold D850 in D major – with modern-day tributes to the composer by György Kurtág, whose work lends its name to the recording’s title, and the world-premiere recording of Jörg Widmann’s Idyll and Abyss: Six Schubert Reminiscences, which conjures a wide range of complex, volatile and mercurial emotions worthy of their namesake"

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