Barenboim’s Schubert.

 

Schubert: Piano Sonatas

I feel that Daniel Barenboim is one of the great pianists and conductors of our time. And this year marks a very special anniversary for this extraordinary musician: Sixty years as recording artist.

To celebrate this occasion, Deutsche Grammophon and Daniel Barenboim will release a new recording of Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonatas soon.

We get to hear the following works:

Schubert:

Piano Sonata No. 4 in A minor, D537
Piano Sonata No. 8 in E flat major, D568
Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, D575
Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D664
Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor, D784
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D845
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, D850
Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D959
Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D958
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960

Performed by Daniel Barenboim (piano)

The sonatas are wonderful romantic music, and after recording them, Barenboim summarized:

  • “Schubert’s sonatas are a revelation. The music laughs and cries, it is at the same time sad and cheerful.”

Indeed, I can hear the beauty and exhilaration of the Austrian countryside in this music. Yet also, the great sorrow of Schubert’s illness and his sort life that ended at age 31.

Here is Daniel Barenboim talking about the Schubert Piano sonatas in an album trailer. Interesting to hear his German with a foreign accent, as a person who was born in Argentina. No matter, just read the English subtitles.

 

 

And next, Daniel Barenboim performs an excerpt of Schubert’s piano sonata in D major from his new album “Schubert: Piano Sonatas”:

 

 

Finally, here is an excerpt from the first movement of the sonata in D-Major by Schubert:

 

Tags: Franz Schubert, Daniel Barenboim, piano Sonatas