Tag: Schubert’s last sonatas

• An Autumn Sonata – the finale

  The final instalment in a series of essays exploring my personal independent study of Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata. This essay first appeared in The Schubertian (April 2018), the journal of the Schubert Institute UK. O thrice romantic master, wouldn’t you like to stroll under the cherry blossom with your love in the daytime and listen…

  The Cross-Eyed Pianist

  April 29, 2018

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  FTCL Diploma, Schubert D959, Schubert’s last sonatas, The Schubertian

• An Autumn Sonata – a personal journey through Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata: the Andantino and the Scherzo

  This article first appeared in The Schubertian (No 97 January 2018), the journal of The Schubert Institute (UK) Startling contrasts – the Andantino and the Scherzo The second movement of the Sonata in A, D959, marked Andantino, is quite unlike anything else that Schubert wrote. Described by pianist Jonathan Biss as “a composed hallucination”, it…

  The Cross-Eyed Pianist

  January 27, 2018

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  Schubert D959, Schubert’s last sonatas, Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata, Schubertreise

• An Autumn Sonata – a personal journey through Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata

  This article, the first of five, was first published in the July 2017 issue of The Schubertian, the journal of the Schubert Institute (UK). In the autumn of 2014 I set myself the task of learning Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata, No 20 in A, D959, composed in 1828. My intention was to learn and finesse…

  The Cross-Eyed Pianist

  July 22, 2017

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  Schubert, Schubert’s last sonatas, Schubert’s piano music