Piano Sonata 24

Mid-period and late Enescu: a suite of impressionist tone-poems followed by a concise and dizzying sonata that is his masterpiece for the piano. Enescu was the most important composer of his native Romania, and a towering figure in 20th century European musical life. He studied in Vienna and Paris, where Massenet and Fauré were his teachers.

"For me, it is a bit like witnessing one's thoughts freely flowing, developing, disappearing and reappearing as something else. The result is something rather complex but completely honest and deeply human, at the same time sounding natural and almost improvisational", as pianist Saskia Giorgini describes her feelings about the music of Enescu.