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Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor, D784
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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Piano Sonatas
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The opening movement of Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata, D959, is exquisitely shaped in this latest offering by Eric Lu, the impressive US pianist who won the 2018 Leeds International Piano... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Instrumental Choice
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what makes this opening salvo in Martin Helmchen's Schubert series stand out is his ability to animate the slighter works not through exaggeration (he's no grandstander) nor through charisma...but... —
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No question about it, Leonskaja’s Schubert on Warner (her Schubert recordings for Teldec are completely different) should provide you with a lifetime’s worth of musical nourishment, and the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Her playing is classy, navigating a fine path between virtuosity, poetry, structural awareness and idiomatic style. There's a velvety lyricism to her Liszt and she's fearsome in the Schubert. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Newcomer of the Year
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Brendel believes Schubert is 'mysteriously episodic', but doesn’t play him that way. Architecture is re-created by scanning ahead… and by binding movements together through tempi that relate... —
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, August 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2012, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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I find nothing to criticize; these readings for me capture the spirit of Schubert’s piano style. His playing is at once natural and sympathetic, and blessedly free of artifice. —
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'A lyricist in a thousand', Lupu has, naturally, placed Schubert at the centre of his repertoire and conjured from a seemingly recalcitrant black-and-white instrument a range of vocal colours... —
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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