Tag: Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata

• 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