\u201cThe Difficulty of the Easy \u2013 Lilit Grigoryan’s Debut Album \u2018Sonata Facile\u2019\u201d
\nWith her debut album \u201cSonata Facile,\u201d pianist Lilit Grigoryan presents a fascinating collection of sonatinas and \u201ceasy\u201d sonatas. But the title is deceptive: the six works by composers such as Mozart, Ravel, Beethoven, and Medtner prove to be musically profound and technically demanding.
\n\u201cWhat is easy, what is difficult?\u201d asks Grigoryan, emphasizing that the art lies in shaping even a few notes with expression, virtuosity, and technical sophistication. Her album takes a fresh look at the sonatina \u2013 an often underrated format that offers both beauty and musical complexity in a compact form.
\nWith her recording, Grigoryan aims to pay tribute to the sonatina genre and invites her listeners on a journey through works that, despite their brevity, unfold an immense wealth of expression \u2013 from Medtner’s lyrical \u201cIdyll\u201d to Ravel’s virtuosic and musically multi-layered sonatina. Grigoryan’s playing sheds new light on these often overlooked masterpieces and shows that less is sometimes more \u2013 and often all the more difficult.
\n\u201cSonata Facile\u201d will be released in February 2025 by Berlin Classics and promises to delight audiences with its blend of lightness and depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe Difficulty of the Easy \u2013 Lilit Grigoryan’s Debut Album \u2018Sonata Facile\u2019\u201d With her debut album \u201cSonata Facile,\u201d pianist Lilit Grigoryan presents a fascinating collection of sonatinas and \u201ceasy\u201d sonatas. But the title is deceptive: the six works by composers such as Mozart, Ravel, Beethoven, and Medtner prove to be musically profound and technically demanding. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1281358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"dmbid":"1610089","upc":"885470036786","linkfire":"","ean":"","genre":"Klassik","genre2":"Klavier","genre3":"","copyright":"","producer":"","playtime":"4459","date":"2025-03-21","dateend":"2099-12-31","trackamount":"19","discamount":"1","artistsname":"","composer":"Reynaldo Hahn|Ludwig van Beethoven|Nikolai Medtner|Hermann Goetz|Maurice Ravel|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Edward Elgar","teammember":["1009;Lilit Grigoryan;3192729|1010;Reynaldo Hahn;219369|1010;Ludwig van Beethoven;297194|1010;Nikolai Medtner;1632314|1010;Hermann Goetz;3206346|1010;Maurice Ravel;42495|1010;Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;42158|1010;Edward Elgar;16142"],"teammemberlist":["3192729|219369|297194|1632314|3206346|42495|42158|16142"],"english":"
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\n\u201cThe Difficulty of the Easy \u2013 Lilit Grigoryan's Debut Album \u2018Sonata Facile\u2019\u201d
\nWith her debut album \u201cSonata Facile,\u201d pianist Lilit Grigoryan presents a fascinating collection of sonatinas and \u201ceasy\u201d sonatas. But the title is deceptive: the six works by composers such as Mozart, Ravel, Beethoven, and Medtner prove to be musically profound and technically demanding.
\n\u201cWhat is easy, what is difficult?\u201d asks Grigoryan, emphasizing that the art lies in shaping even a few notes with expression, virtuosity, and technical sophistication. Her album takes a fresh look at the sonatina \u2013 an often underrated format that offers both beauty and musical complexity in a compact form.
\nWith her recording, Grigoryan aims to pay tribute to the sonatina genre and invites her listeners on a journey through works that, despite their brevity, unfold an immense wealth of expression \u2013 from Medtner's lyrical \u201cIdyll\u201d to Ravel's virtuosic and musically multi-layered sonatina. Grigoryan's playing sheds new light on these often overlooked masterpieces and shows that less is sometimes more \u2013 and often all the more difficult.
\n\u201cSonata Facile\u201d will be released in February 2025 by Berlin Classics and promises to delight audiences with its blend of lightness and depth.
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