Schubert: Sonata D.960

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Ugorskaja’s slow and often static approach [is] epitomised in her double-length bass trill at the end of the first phrase of the sonata...Within this state of pervasive lingering, if you can... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020 More…

Release Date: 15th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: AVI8553107
Label: Avi Music
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Winner - Solo Music

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

Work length48:43

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Dina Ugorskaja (soloist)

I. Molto moderato

Track length23:50

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length11:03

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III. Allegro vivace con delicatezza

Track length4:26

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IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length9:24

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Schubert: Klavierstücke (3), D946

Work length26:33

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Dina Ugorskaja (soloist)

No. 1 in E Sharp Minor. Allegro assai

Track length9:07

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No. 2 in E Sharp Major. Allegretto

Track length12:05

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No. 3 in C Major. Allegro

Track length5:21

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Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D780, Op. 94

Work length34:44

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Dina Ugorskaja (soloist)

No. 1 in C Major. Moderato

Track length7:26

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No. 2 in A Sharp Major. Andantino

Track length7:18

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No. 3 in F Minor. Allegro moderato

Track length2:09

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No. 4 in C Sharp Minor. Moderato

Track length6:16

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No. 5 in F Minor. Allegro Vivace

Track length2:14

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No. 6 in A Sharp Major. Allegretto

Track length9:21

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On September 17, 2019, the phenomenal pianist Dina Ugorskaja died of cancer at the age of 46. Her swan song is this exceptional album of works by Franz Schubert.

”Schubert and his “heavenly lengths” have accompanied me throughout my entire life. In this music, time occasionally seems to stand still: the state of lingering and resting seems to predominate above all others. We are overwhelmed with unbearable pain, with abysses of despair and hopelessness. How can it be that the confrontation with death - so immediately present in this music - disolves all of a sudden into a floating, ethereal impermanence? Unexpected joy emerges, as if we were hearing the laughing of a child. The child’s perspective, combined with unparalleled maturity, makes up the essence of Franz Schubert’s music as I see it. It reminds me of a passage from Schiller. In 1795, three years before Schubert’s birth, Friedrich Schiller wrote in his treatise “On Naive and Sentimental Poetry” .......... (from the Booklet notes by Dina Ugorskaja)

“Even those who have heard the Sonata in B flat major a hundred times are confronted here with an intensity that at first will leave them speechless. Dina Ugorskaja’s interpretation, which is rich in accents but played very slowly, may at times be frightening by brute force, and her way of shaping Schubert’s music out of one block, so to speak, does not correspond at all to the romantic, beautiful image we have of this work, which is also provided with heavenly sounds by many performers. Ugorskaja Schubert’s sonata is not beautiful, but honest, torn, restless and often very, very sad. Above all, however, the pianist takes the time to put every note in the right light. It is an intense and disturbing interpretation that is unparalleled...Ugorskaja’s interpretations always remain concise, unique in their expression, sometimes mercilessly intense, clear and yet intangible. For the listener they provide an intense experience outside space and time. The last great musical achievement of a wonderful performer!” - Pizzicato, October 2019

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March 2020

Ugorskaja’s slow and often static approach [is] epitomised in her double-length bass trill at the end of the first phrase of the sonata...Within this state of pervasive lingering, if you can go with it, she explores some precious details...There are moments of true delight in Ugorskaja’s exploration of the chiaroscuro of the Moments musicaux and somehow, perhaps because of their brevity, their wholeness does not suffer as much as in the sonata from overemphasis on detail.

Schubert: Sonata D.960

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