SCHUBERT Moments Musicaux. Piano Sonata No 20
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Composer or Director: Franz Schubert, Missy Mazzoli
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Onyx
Magazine Review Date: 01/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 77
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ONYX4136
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(6) Moments musicaux |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Shai Wosner, Piano |
Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos |
Missy Mazzoli, Composer
Missy Mazzoli, Composer Shai Wosner, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 20 |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Shai Wosner, Piano |
Author: Harriet Smith
You have to be a bit careful what you programme alongside Schubert but Missy Mazzoli’s enticingly titled Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos is a clever choice, using as it does fragments from Schubert’s D959 Sonata. Setting a minimalistic piano line against electronics, it imagines the dying memories of Isabelle Eberhardt, who gave up a life of luxury to become an explorer but was killed in a flood at just 27 – the age that Missy Mazzoli was when she composed the piece.
Wosner moves straight from memories of Schubert’s A major Sonata to the genuine article, setting off with a demonstration of power without aggression – in marked contrast to Barenboim’s recent traversal. In Lewis’s hands, the slow movement has a sense of trudging weariness akin to the protagonist’s step in Winterreise; there’s a little more lilt in Wosner’s reading but also a profound inwardness, which makes the cataclysmic outburst all the more shocking – as if moving from a catatonic state to something blazingly alive – and the return to the opening pace is fragile indeed. If others find more sense of play in the Scherzo (Andsnes among them), Wosner is powerfully convincing in the finale. Slightly steadier than the songful Lupu, he nevertheless proves himself a Schubertian of real stature.
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