Giuseppe Bruno - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 958, D. 784 & Other Works (2019)
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Style: Classical | Label: onClassical
In his final year, just as in earlier attempts at composing for the piano, Schubert looked at Beethoven for inspiration. Tragic in essence, the Sonata in C Minor, D 958 presents strong evidence of this: the opening measures evoke the passacaglia-like theme that Beethoven used for his Thirty-two Variations in C Minor, WoO 80; the Adagio movement brings us back nearly three decades to the middle movement of the Pathetique Sonata; much of the material in the closing rondo seemingly derives from the last movement of Beethoven’s Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3; and we might even look at the same sonata from Op. 31 to make sense of Schubert’s unusual inclusion of a Minuet, by then an obsolete dance. Pianistically, the Sonata in C Minor is a work of epic proportions.