Composer: Franz Peter Schubert, Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Barry Douglas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Release: 2018
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D958
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Menuetto. Allegro
04. IV. Allegro
Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94
05. No. 1 in C Major. Moderato
06. No. 2 in A-Flat Major. Andantino
07. No. 3 in F Minor. Allegro moderato
08. No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor. Moderato
09. No. 5 in F Minor. Allegro vivace
10. No. 6 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto
Liszt: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558
11. No. 1, Sei mir gegrüßt
12. No. 2, Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Recorded: 23 and 24 May 2017
Recording Venue: Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
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.