Cosmos And Consciousness Stephen Blaha

To use Stephen Hough’s own words from his previous Schubert recording for Hyperion (6/99), the ‘communion of hearts’ between the composer and the performer is the supreme virtue. And as before, this new disc materialises it. Once again he pairs a late sonata with an earlier one, throwing in one of Schubert’s many sonata torsos along the way. The incomplete work here is a fragment of a projected Sonata in E minor, D769a, lasting no more than a minute, but performed with the same conviction and drama as if it were a full-length sonata (and resisting any temptation to round the music off).

by Karen Schroeder Sorensen (Author)