At the start of his season as Artist in Residence with the Dresden Philharmonic, Boris Giltburg gave an in-depth interview for the German print edition of Pianist magazine, in which he discussed topics ranging from his upcoming performances and the recording of both books of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier (“the next Mount Everest I’m taking on”) to his surprise at Yuja Wang’s recent performances of his piano arrangements of Rachmaninoff’s The Isle of the Dead and Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet.
“For me, Beethoven has evolved from a composer I deeply admired (and perhaps slightly feared) into one of my closest companions in music. This season I will perform the cycle again [after Wigmore Hall] in Brussels, Valencia, and Santiago de Chile, and perhaps more cities will follow. I think I will play these sonatas all my life.”
Giltburg on the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas