Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 & Klavierstücke D946

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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…

Release Date: 18th May 1998
Catalogue No: 4565722
Label: Philips
Length: 71 minutes

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

Work length44:46

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Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Recorded: 1997-05
Recording Venue: Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Wien

1. Molto moderato

Track length22:02

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2. Andante sostenuto

Track length10:46

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3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace con delicatezza)

Track length3:59

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4. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length7:59

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Schubert: Klavierstücke (3), D946

Work length26:13

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Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Recorded: 1997-05
Recording Venue: Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Wien

No. 1 in E flat minor (Allegro assai)

Track length9:43

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No. 2 in E flat (Allegretto)

Track length10:35

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No. 3 in C (Allegro)

Track length5:55

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2010

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 pp or even ppp; and none conjures such subtlety of colour in the softest dynamics: listen, for instance, to her playing of the three unearthly C sharp minor chords that usher in the firstmovement development, or her timing and colouring of the breathtaking sideslip from C sharp minor to C major in the Andante. Other pianists may find a stronger undercurrent of foreboding or desperation in these two movements – though Uchida builds the development of the initial Molto moderato superbly to its dramatic climax.
But none probes more hauntingly the music's mysterious contemplative ecstasy or creates such a sense of inspired improvisation. And her limpid cantabile sonorities are always ravishing on the ear. She's equally attuned to the less rarefied world of the Scherzo and finale, the former a glistening, mercurial dance, con delicatezza indeed, the latter graceful and quixotic, with a hint of emotional ambiguity even in its ostensibly cheerful main theme and a tigerish ferocity in its sudden Beethovenian eruptions.
The coupling is generous: the three Klavierstücke, D946, composed, like the sonata, in Schubert's final year, 1828, and assembled by Brahms for publication. She brings a wonderfully impassioned sweep, with razor-sharp rhythms, to the opening of the E flat minor, No-1, and mesmerically floats its slow B major episode. She also restores the beguiling barcarolle- like episode in A flat that Schubert excised from his autograph manuscript. The recording finely captures Uchida's subtle, pellucid sound world. A revealing disc from a Schubertian of rare insight and spirituality.

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 & Klavierstücke D946

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