$29.95 – Compact disc / Onyx Classics / ISBN:0880040407324
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D840 & 850
Catalogue # ONYX4073
Shai Wosner’s second release for ONYX after his critically acclaimed Brahms and Schoenberg debut disc (ONYX4055) of 2010. For his all Schubert programme Wosner has chosen two late sonatas. The monumental but unfinished two-movement torso D840, and the genial D850 written at a time in the composers life when he was without money, out of love, and involved with rows with his publishers. This work was one of the few sonatas to be published during his lifetime, and finally he earned 300 florins. Schumann described this sonata as ‘impetuous, overflowing’ It is one of Schubert’s happiest works, in start contrast to the stark and monolithic D840.
Schubert:
Piano Sonata No. 15 in C major, D840 'Relequie'
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, D850
6 German Dances D820
Hungarian Melody in B minor D817
Shai Wosner (piano)