Schubert: Sonatas D840 and D850, etc – review

Shai Wosner(Onyx)The proportions of the two movements of the C major Piano Sonata D840 that Schubert completed in 1825 but then abandoned suggest a work conceived on a monumental scale, comparable to that of his final trilogy of sonatas. Shai Wosner's performance, with its extremes of dynamics, glistening pianissimos followed by thunderous fortissimos, certainly projects that sense of something epic, while making a link to late Beethoven, and to his last sonata, Op 111, in particular. But Wosne...

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