Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 959 & D 960
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 959 & D 960
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 5 December 2017
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Legendary Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman in his first solo album for DG for over twenty-five years. Revelatory readings of Piano Sonatas D959 & D960, Schubert's last major compositions for the piano before his death aged thirty-one. Recorded at the Kashiwazaki City Performing Arts Centre in Japan in January 2016.
Krystian performed these last two eternal masterworks intensely over the last few years to highest critical acclaim. This album is set to take its place among the great Schubert recordings.
"Zimerman, quite simply, sounds like no one else. That's partly down to the instrument, having inserted into his Steinway a keyboard he has made himself... Every element of these two sonatas has been thought out, considered; in the hands of a lesser artist the results could have been pernickety but instead they tend towards the transcendent...This is a marvellously life‑enhancing release. Go and hear it for yourself." Gramophone
"His virtuoso technique makes light of the technical demands of both the A major (D959) and B-flat major (D960) works, yet it is the tonal colouring and shading, his assured control of dynamics and ability to integrate the sudden lurches from dramatic despair to unbound joy, that make these performances so satisfying" Sunday Times
"Characteristically, the performances have been prepared with immense care...while the attention that Zimerman pays to the minutest detail of the phrasing never becomes an end in itself...There are certainly more strikingly individual recordings of both sonatas to be found, good and less good, but few that are so consistently thoughtful and musical, and so technically impeccable too" Guardian
Tracks:
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D959
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
