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Boris Giltburg performs
The Complete Piano Sonatas
© Sasha Gusov
Boris Giltburg performs
The Complete Piano Sonatas
About Boris Giltburg
The young Moscow-born, Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is lauded across the globe as a deeply sensitive, insightful and compelling interpreter, with critics praising his impassioned, narrative-driven approach to performance. At home in repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Shostakovich, in recent years he has been increasingly recognised as a leading interpreter of Rachmaninov. To celebrate the Beethoven anniversary in 2020 Giltburg has embarked upon a unique project to learn all the sonatas across the year. He is recording the complete Beethoven piano concertos for Naxos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (RLPO) and Vasily Petrenko.
In 2018 he won Best Soloist Recording (20th/21st century) at the inaugural Opus Klassik Awards for his Naxos recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Carlos Miguel Prieto, coupled with the Études-Tableaux. He won a Diapason d’Or for his first concerto recording, the Shostakovich concertos with Petrenko and the RLPO, coupled with his own arrangement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8; and his Liszt, Schumann, Beethoven solo discs on Naxos have been similarly well received.
