LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Reviewing the reissue of this authoritative Beethoven Sonatas cycle in 1997 – when it was newly remastered, with “noticeably improved sound” – Gramophone critic Edward Greenfield wrote: “Once again the magic of Kempff leaves me in wonder, his magnetism, his unfailing sense of spontaneity, his ability to clarify textures with astonishingly clean articulation and sharp dynamic contrasts, and not least his lyrical flow, with extreme speeds generally avoided.”