Japanese-born pianist Hideyo Harada presents her fourth SACD with music by Franz Schubert
These two approaches in Schubert’s music appear as opposite poles in Schubert’s pianistic output:
1. Energetic, resolute and sometimes boastful in the case of the Wanderer Fantasy, and
2. The final piano sonata is restrained, elusive and at times faltering. That, at least, is the impression given by the outer movements. The common elements are in the slow movements in which Schubert is the most amazing master. No other composer addressed so radically what is brought into focus here: the notion of time. In the Wanderer Fantasy it is reflected as rhythm, as “measured time”: Schubert developed the piece from a central rhythm. The sonata questions the course of time itself, the elementary medium of life in music, by breaking off and starting afresh, roaming and stretching, and exploring.
In her interpretation, Hideyo Harada explores the contrasts as well as the common undercurrent which forms a link between these two works.
Tracks on this CD are as follows:
1. Fantasia for piano in C major (‘Wanderer’), D. 760
2. Fantasia for piano in C major (‘Wanderer’), D. 760
3. Fantasia for piano in C major (‘Wanderer’), D. 760
4. Fantasia for piano in C major (‘Wanderer’), D. 760
5. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960
6. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960
7. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960
8. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960
Here is Hideyo Harada playing Schumann Arabeske op. 18
And finally, here she is in Schubert’s Impromptu B-dur Op.142-3
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