ABC Classics launches its new Australian Masters series with a 3-CD collection featuring Tessa Birnie's legendary interpretation of Schubert's B-flat major Piano Sonata and ground-breaking performance of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the lower key of B minor. Regarded as one of the world's foremost interpreters of Schubert, New Zealand-born Australia-based Birnie was a profound musical thinker as well as a virtuoso and these recorded performances capture many of the highlights from her 40-year career.