Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 15 & 17

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His playing of the German Dances has a muscularity and a lovely transparency, while the Hungarian Melody has an exquisite soulfulness. But what strikes the listener from the first few bars of... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2011
Catalogue No: ONYX4073
Label: Onyx
Length: 76 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

December 2011

Instrumental Choice

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 15 in C major, D840 'Reliquie'

Work length26:33

Album only

Shai Wosner

I. Moderato

Track length17:05

Album only

II. Andante

Track length9:28

$1.50

$2.10

Schubert: Six German Dances, D 820: I. Tempo giusto; A-Flat, II. A-Flat, III. A-Flat, IV. B-Flat, V. B-Flat, VI. B-Flat

Work length5:21

$1.00

$1.40

Shai Wosner

Schubert: Hungarian Melody in B minor D817

Work length4:18

$1.00

$1.40

Shai Wosner

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, D850

Work length40:07

$6.50

$9.10

Shai Wosner

I. Allegro vivace

Track length9:01

$1.50

$2.10

II. Con moto

Track length12:41

$2.00

$2.80

III. Scherzo; Allegro vivace

Track length8:42

$1.50

$2.10

IV. Rondo; Allegro moderato

Track length9:43

$1.50

$2.10

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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.

Reviews

December 2011

His playing of the German Dances has a muscularity and a lovely transparency, while the Hungarian Melody has an exquisite soulfulness. But what strikes the listener from the first few bars of the Sonata which opens this recording...is the aristocratic grace of Wosner's tone, and his expressive shades of staccato.

January 2012

With this recital Shai Wosner declares himself a Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character. Entirely modern in style (tonally lean and sharply focused, never given to easy or sentimental options), he relishes every twist and turn in the so-called Reliquie Sonata...Wosner rivets your attention at every point. He also shows a high degree of charm and affection in the German Dances and the Hungarian Melody

29th September 2011

Wosner's performance, with its extremes of dynamics, glistening pianissimos followed by thunderous fortissimos, certainly projects [a] sense of something epic, while making a link to late Beethoven, and to his last sonata, Op 111, in particular.

Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 15 & 17

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