Adam Golka

Adam Golka – Brahms & Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:54 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © First Hand Records

Adam Golka has won widespread critical and popular acclaim with his “brilliant technique and real emotional depth” (The Washington Post) and has garnered international prizes including the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award. He has performed with many orchestras around the globe inlcuding BBC Scottish SO, Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw PO, Shanghai PO and many American orchestras and has collaborated with artists such as Donald Runnicles, Mark Wigglesworth and Pinchas Zukerman. This brilliant young Polish-American pianist releases a remarkable new and unique recording. Brahms was clearly influenced by the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata yet this is the first time these two works have appeared together on a recording.
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Adam Golka – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:34 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © First Hand Records

Adam Golka’s third album for First Hand Records begins a wonderful journey in which he records all of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas. This first volume, released in Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, includes one of the composer’s most celebrated works, the “Pathétique” Sonata in C minor, alongside the contrasting Sonatas, Op. 10. All four sonatas were written 1796-98.

Since first self-presenting and performing Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas at the age of 18, Adam Golka has immersed himself in studying the master’s works. He has studied Beethoven under the guidance of masters such as Leon Fleisher, Alfred Brendel, Sir András Schiff, Murray Perahia, and Ferenc Rados. In 2011, Adam performed a cycle of all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Lubbock Symphony, with his brother Tomasz at the baton, and last summer, he made his San Francisco Symphony début at the Stern Grove Festival in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.

He will celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday in 2020 by playing the whole cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas in multiple cities, which includes a self-produced video series named “32@32”, made in collaboration with filmmaker Zac Nicholson and designed to be part of the concert experience.

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