Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Paul Lewis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMC902115/16
Release: 2011
Size: 2.4 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, D850
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Con moto
03. III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
04. IV. Rondo. Allegro moderato
Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894
05. I. Molto moderato e cantabile
06. II. Andante
07. III. Menuetto. Allegro moderato
08. IV. Allegretto
4 Impromptus, D899 (Op. 90)
09. I. Allegro molto moderato, C minor
10. II. Allegro, E flat major
11. III. Andante mosso, G flat major
12. IV. Allegretto, A flat minor
Piano Sonata No. 15 in C major, D840 ‘Reliquie’
13. I. Moderato
14. II. Andante
Klavierstücke, D946
15. I. Allegro assai. Andante. Andantino
16. II. Allegretto
17. III. Allegro
Paul Lewis has just emerged from a vast Beethoven project: the complete sonatas and piano concertos, greeted all over the world as a landmark and completed in 2011 by the ‘Diabelli Variations’ – and now he returns to Franz Schubert, the other key focus of his concert career, the other pillar of his discography.
In this double album, three late sonatas are accompanied by two sets of short pieces brimming with inventiveness, the ‘ Impromptus’ and ‘Klavierstücke’.
“there were magical moments too, when Lewis’s playing touched the sublime. His own Schubert odyssey is not to be missed by anybody who appreciates pianism of the highest caliber.” Barry Millington, London Evening Standard, concert review