Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Paul Badura-Skoda
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Release: 2021
Size: 1.78 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Sonata No. 1 in E Major, D. 157
01. I. Allegro ma non troppo
02. II. Andante
03. III. Menuetto (Allegro vivace)
Sonata No. 9 in B Major, D. 575
04. I. Allegro, ma non troppo
05. II. Andante
06. III. Scherzo (Allegretto)
07. IV. Allegro giusto
Sonata No. 2 in C Major, D. 279 / 346
08. I. Allegro moderato
09. II. Andante
10. III. Menuetto (Allegro vivace)
11. IV. Allegretto, D. 346
CD 02
Sonata No. 5 in A-Flat Major, D. 557
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro
Sonata No. 10 in C Major, D. 613 / 612
04. I. Moderato
05. II. Adagio, D. 612
06. III. Allegretto
Sonata No. 7 in E-Flat Major, D. 568
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Andante molto
09. III. Menuetto (Allegretto)
10. IV. Allegro moderato
CD 03
Sonata No. 6 in E Minor, D. 566 / 506
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
04. IV. Rondo (Allegretto moto), D. 506
Sonata No. 14 in C Major, D. 840 “Reliquie”
05. I. Moderato
06. II. Andante
07. III. Menuetto (Allegretto)
08. IV. Rondo (Allegro)
CD 04
Sonata No. 3 in E Major, D. 459 “Fünf Klavierstücke”
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Scherzo (Allegro)
03. III. Adagio
04. IV. Scherzo con trio (Allegro)
05. V. Allegro patetico
Sonata No. 15 in A Minor, D. 845
06. I. Moderato
07. II. Andante, poco mosso
08. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
09. IV. Rondo (Allegro vivace)
CD 05
Sonata No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor, D. 571 / 604 / 570
01. I. Allegro moderato, D. 571
02. II. Andante, D. 604
03. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace), D. 570
04. IV. Allegro, D. 570
Sonata No. 16 in D Major, D. 850
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andante con moto
07. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
08. IV. Rondo (Allegro moderato)
CD 06
Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537
01. I. Allegro, ma non troppo
02. II. Allegretto quasi andantino
03. III. Allegro vivace
Sonata No. 17 in G Major, D. 894
04. I. Molto moderato e cantabile
05. II. Andante
06. III. Menuetto (Allegro vivace)
07. IV. Allegretto
CD 07
Sonata No. 11 in F Minor, D. 625 / 505
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Scherzo (Allegretto)
03. III. Adagio, Op. posth. 145
04. IV. Allegro
Sonata No. 18 in C Minor, D. 958
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Menuetto (Allegro)
08. IV. Allegro
CD 08
Sonata No. 13 in A Minor, D. 784
01. I. Allegro giusto
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro vivace
Sonata No. 19 in A Major, D. 959
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andantino
06. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) – Trio (Un poco più lento)
07. IV. Rondo (Allegretto)
CD 09
Sonata No. 12 in A Major, D. 664
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro
Sonata No. 20 in B-Flat Major, D. 960
04. I. Molto moderato
05. II. Andante sostenuto
06. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace con delicatezza)
07. IV. Allegro, ma non troppo
After the tremendous success of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, Arcana re-releases the companion set of Schubert sonatas with a new design and the addition of the indispensable booklet notes written by Paul Badura-Skoda. An absolute must-have, the ‘Desert Island Schubert’ according to Diapason magazine.
For as long as he could remember, Paul Badura-Skoda always felt an intimate bond with Schubert’s music. At a time when knowledge of the composer was still very sketchy, he scrutinised the princeps editions and manuscripts in order to track down errors and to establish Urtext versions which are regarded as reference editions today. But beyond that, he was able to complete certain movements that Schubert had left unfinished, though without introducing music foreign to the composer. In the exhaustive essay which he made a point of writing for this complete recording, we can read with profit, sonata by sonata, the nature of the work he accomplished. The choice of period instruments responds to a search for colours and sound ranges favouring a greater intimacy with the composer’s music, permitted by the use of only those instruments which Schubert knew and played and for which he actually wrote his music.Yet what is most striking is the sense of identification between the performer, Badura-Skoda, and the composer, Schubert. In this recording of the complete piano sonatas on period instruments, made in Vienna between 1991 and 1996, the Viennese maestro gave us the result of a lifetime’s work: Schubert’s music with his passion, his suffering, and that inimitable tone which makes his native city the place so essentially and existentially identified with music.