Review: Sublime moments and some miscues in Emanuel Ax's Schubert recital at Stanford

The pianist's clarity of line and rhythm gave the composer's Four Impromptus (1827) an ease, an absolute sense of freedom, even during the fourth impromptu's dense scale-driven moments. But the poetry of the monumental Sonata in B-flat, D. 960, eluded Ax.

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