“Stefanovich brings total mastery, athleticism and power to her recordings of Boulez’s second sonata, and other 20th-century piano works.”
Organised Delirium, featuring Tamara Stefanovich, received a fantastic 5-star review from The Guardian.
“Stefanovich was able to study the sonata with Boulez, and her dazzling performance conveys a sense of total command and authority in every bar. Her mastery of the extreme technical demands of the piano writing one quickly takes as read, but the way in which she shapes and directs the turmoil of the outer movements, clarifying their swirling counterpoint as much as she can, is exceptional. Boulez himself described the sonata as having an “explosive, disintegrating and dispersive character”, and admitted that its first movement was an attempt to destroy sonata form, but Stefanovich shows that it is much more than an essay in musical destruction; there’s a passion beneath the seething textures and a tension between expressiveness and technical rigour that emerges more potently in this interpretation than in any other recording.” – Andrew Clements
Read the full review HERE.
