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<p>Ludwig van Beethoven</p><p> Sonata in D minor, op. 31 No. 2 “The Tempest” Sonata in C sharp minor, op. 27 No. 2 “Clair de lune” Sonata in F minor, op. 57 “Appassionata”</p><p> "We can no longer say: a young pianist! Pierre Réach's temples are graying prematurely, as if all his youth had flowed back from his heart to his hands. And his two hands, powerful like a sculptor's, possess the tenderness of a poet dreaming of a childhood lived badly. Pierre Réach is a symphonic pianist... can this curious combination of two contradictory words convey that Pierre Réach's piano sounds like an orchestra?" Antoine Livio</p><p> "We too often forget that Beethoven opened up other sonic horizons from his piano (...) This very nature of volcanic sound, Pierre Réach, who once made short work of Alkan's Four Ages of Life, possesses it: an implosive keyboard, profoundly Beethovenian in its ardor, its risk-taking, its drive to the point of abrasion (...) Pierre Réach knows full well that these Sonatas are symphonies." Jean-Charles Hoffelé</p> Museum visit & Beethoven concert: sonatas