Rudolf Buchbinder review - big-boned, full-throttle Beethoven

Playfair Library, EdinburghThree concerts into his Beethoven piano sonata cycle, Buchbinder’s brio was impressive and bracing, but often at the expensive of detail and nuance
There is never much downtime with Rudolf Buchbinder. The indefatigable 68-year-old Viennese pianist plays Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas across nine concerts at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival: it’s a marathon he has run nearly 50 times before, and by the looks of things he could do it 50 times agai