![]() The latest set now completes Schiff’s survey of the late sonatas with the C minor D958 and A major D959, recorded in the Beethoven-Haus three years ago. A very fine Schubert collection from a player who has emerged as a major artist.There have been discs of late Beethoven – the Diabelli Variations and the Op 126 Bagatelles – and, two years ago, a first pair of Schubert sonatas, in G major and B flat, D894 and D960. 840 ("Reliquie"), a troublesome piece that can seem shapeless, for a taste of the Lewis magic. Sample his handling of the chromatic half-step running through the first movement of the Piano Sonata in C major, D. The album includes the three piano sonatas coming immediately before the towering works of the last year of Schubert's life, and each one receives a very finely detailed and beautifully controlled performance. For all his ravishing melodies, Schubert was a composer who wrote music for small groups of thoughtful connisseurs, and Lewis' interpretations respect that. 899, Lewis manages to emphasize the amazingly progressive quality of Schubert's music without taking it beyond its proper chamber dimensions. ![]() His Schubert may be a bit less immediately compelling than Beethoven sonatas in which tremendous harmonic momentum is made to shift direction in entirely unexpected ways, but there are lovely touches all through this two-disc set. ![]() As with Beethoven, Lewis has an uncanny ability to approach Schubert's scores seemingly afresh, with an ear open to the smallest details. ![]() ![]() After his largely superb cycle of Beethoven's piano music (solo and orchestral), hot British pianist Paul Lewis returns to Schubert, a composer with whom he has often been identified in his concert career. ![]()
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