Composer: Franz Peter Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber
Performer: Paul Lewis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM902324
Release: 2019
Size: 864 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Weber: Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major, Op. 39
01. I. Allegro moderato, con spirito ed assai legato
02. II. Andante. Ben tenuto
03. III. Menuetto capriccioso. Presto assai
04. IV. Rondo. Moderato e molto grazioso
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, D575
05. I. Allegro ma non troppo
06. II. Andante
07. III. Scherzo Allegretto
08. IV. Allegro giusto
Even if both of them were destined to die tragically of illness at a very early age (Weber at 39, Schubert just 31!), the two composers on this disc were healthy enough when they wrote these works, and were even beginning to taste success. Except that it was not to the piano sonata that they owed their fame: not without a twinkle in his eye, Paul Lewis has coupled their works in this genre in order to paint a different and highly elegant portrait of two musical dramatists who were emblematic figures of Austro-German Romanticism.