Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Yasuyo Yano
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: IBS Classical
Catalogue: IBS102020
Release: 2020
Size: 1.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894
01. I. Molto moderato e cantabile
02. II. Andante
03. III. Menuetto. Allegro moderato
04. IV. Allegretto
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D845
05. I. Moderato
06. II. Andante poco moto
07. III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
08. IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace
From the elated dream to the bitter reality: to provide a proper rendering of Franz Schubert’s music, with its enormous range of expressions including all the intermediate tones, the instrument of choice must be the Fortepiano, if only for its similitude to the pianos used during Schubert’s lifetime. The model used in the present recording is based on the grand piano of the Viennese master Conrad Graf, an instrument that Schubert himself owned. Its six pedals allow Schubert’s music to be played with multifaceted pliancy and depth. The skillful use of all these pedals, which in modern instruments have been reduced to two or three, opens up a multitude of sound facettes, similar to doors that open up to a multitude of rooms, each decorated in its own particular way and with its own particular style. Yano now lives in Switzerland where she teaches the piano, Fortepiano and chamber music at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She gives solo recitals and is also a chamber music performer, both on the Fortepiano and the modern piano.