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Solzhenitsyn Plays Schubert

This recording contains two sonatas, written close together in the middle months of 1825, which represent the first fully mature piano writing to emerge from Schubert’s pen.

 

"It is here, in the third and final statement of the rondo theme (bar 172)—a decelerated, hypnotizing meditation of whispered sixteenths—that the catharsis of leave-taking, adumbrated in the endings of both the middle movements, finds its most refined and profound expression, an irrevocable winding-down of a heartbeat slowing, faint, and at last extinguished."

—from Ignat Solzhenitsyn's liner notes

FRANZ SCHUBERT  (1797-1828)
Sonata in C major, D. 840  (1825)
Sonata in D major, D. 850  (1825)

TRACK LIST

  1. Sonata in C major, D. 840 - I. Moderato

  2. Sonata in C major, D. 840 - II. Andante

  3. Sonata in D major, D. 850 - I. Allegro vivace

  4. Sonata in D major, D. 850 - II. Con moto

  5. Sonata in D major, D. 850 - III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

  6. Sonata in D major, D. 850 - IV. Allegro moderato

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