Browse: Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960

[Schiff] shows how [the fortepiano's] muted, delicate sound can transform Schubert for modern listeners. Two of the piano sonatas, the G Major, D894, and the late B Flat, D960, speak to us as... — Financial Times, 9th May 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Zimerman takes us into a place of deep introspection, finding vast universes within. The recorded sound, by Rainer Maillard, is beautifully judged, combining gentleness with absolute clarity…This... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It almost goes without saying that this is piano playing of the highest calibre, to which the recorded sound does full justice. Yet I do have reservations about his choice of repeats...Lewis's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These classic 1970s recordings find Brendel as full of energy and humour as of beauty and feeling. Throughout, his playing is wondrous. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2009 More…

Uchida's concentration and inwardness are of a rare order in her absorbed, deeply poetic reading of the B flat Sonata. No pianist makes you so aware how much of the first two movements is marked... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

her performances are characteristically thoughtful – too much so for my liking.
Pires’s approach is more high Romantic than late Classical, constantly oscillating between loud and soft, fast... — Financial Times, 9th February 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…