January 7, 2014
BENJAMIN HOCHMAN'S 'HOMAGE TO SCHUBERT' REVIEWED IN NY TIMES

‘HOMAGE TO SCHUBERT’
Benjamin Hochman, pianist
(Avie)


The excellent and inquisitive Israeli-born pianist Benjamin Hochman pays homage to Schubert with vibrant and stylish accounts of the gentle Sonata in A (D. 664) and the ebullient Sonata in D (D. 850). He includes daring works by two major living composers written in tribute to Schubert: Gyorgy Kurtag’s short, mercurial piece “Hommage à Schubert” and Jörg Widmann’s inventive, 12-minute “Idyll und Abgrund,” which takes bits of Schubert and filters them through a strange, sometimes audacious contemporary prism. (Tommasini)

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