Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3 [Incls 'Piano Sonata, Op. post., D958']

 
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3 [Incls 'Piano Sonata, Op. post., D958']
Barry Douglas (piano)

[ Chandos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 4 May 2018

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Barry Douglas's Schubert series has reached Volume 3 with this unique programme, featuring two of the composer's masterpieces as well as two ingenious transcriptions of his Lieder by his friend and admirer Liszt.

Occasionally echoing Beethoven's Variations in the same key (WoO 80), the Sonata in C minor melts into one of Schubert's most daring, lyrical, and unpredictable developments, alternating unexpected harmonic variations, pulsating rhythms, and purely dramatic passages.

With no sort of organic unity or cyclic intent across the set, the late Six Moments musicaux display many of Schubert's compositional elements: from the elegant and the folkloristic to the pathetic and the anxious.

The album ends in homage, with two arrangements by Liszt, paying tribute to the melodic and harmonic detail of Schubert's music, and creating new, busy, and varied textures from Schubert's ingredients, finally unleashing the resources of the virtuoso to convey the poet's (and composer's) metaphysical exaltation.

"There is much to admire in this recital and some of the playing (e.g. the slow movement of the sonata and the second and fifth Moments Musicaux) places Douglas in the front rank of Schubert interpreters. Douglas concluded his recital with Liszt's transcriptions of Sei mir gegrüßt and Auf dem Wasser zu singen. There is gorgeous layering of sound and tone painting in the former and a wonderful build-up of textures and sonorities in the latter. Overall, this is a very fine recording and is highly recommended." MusicWeb

"Barry Douglas is one of history's grand Schubertians, his artistry and sensitivity yielding fabled glories at every turn. His C-minor Sonata is a gripping symphonic canvas, its roads, valleys and peaks wandered and dreamt to perfection, every lyrical contrast gloriously poeticised, every tempo tensionally scaled, each movement gap judged to a nicety. The A-flat Adagio breathes at a thespian level, the black tarantella Finale races with all the muscular grace and power of an Aintree steeplechaser. Regally magnificent." ClassicalSource

Tracks:

Piano Sonata, Op. post., D958 (1828)
in C minor • in c-Moll • en ut mineur
1.Allegro
2.Adagio
3.Menuetto. Allegro - Trio - Menuetto D.C.
4.Allegro

Six Moments musicaux, Op.94, D780 (1823-28)
Book 1
5.1 Moderato in C major • in C-Dur • en ut majeur
6.2 Andantino in A flat major • in As-Dur • en la bémol majeur
7.3 Allegretto moderato1:43 in F minor • in f-Moll • en fa mineur
Book 2
8.4 Moderato - Coda in C sharp minor • in cis-Moll • en ut dièse mineur
9.5 Allegro vivace in F minor • in f-Moll • en fa mineur
10.6 Allegretto - Trio - Allegretto D.C. in F flat major • in As-Dur • en la bémol majeur

11. Sei mir gegrüßt, D741 (1821-22)
No.1 from Drei Lieder, Op.20
Transcribed for piano and published a No.1 from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558 (1837-38)
by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Lento

12. Auf dem Wasser zu singen, Op.72 D774 (1823)
Transcribed for piano and published as No.2 from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558
by Franz Liszt
Moderato