Schubert - Piano Sonatas Vol.2 | IBS Classical IBS42022

Schubert - Piano Sonatas Vol.2

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Label: IBS Classical

Cat No: IBS42022

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 8th July 2022

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Second volume of Franz Schubert’s Sonatas for fortepiano in which Yasuyo Yano chooses two of the greatest sonatas: no.19 in C minor and no.7 in E flat major. The Sonata in C minor, D958, is characteristic of Schubert’s feeling of retreat. Towards the end, the movement rushes ever more quietly towards silence, before two brute final chords conclude this grandiose sonata. The Sonata in E flat major, D568, begins with a thoughtfully cautious unisono. This rapturous mood is soon interrupted by a brisk transition, only to culminate in a swaying waltz-sweetness composed with supple chromaticism. The themes and their lively interplay always reveal a melancholy mood.

Yasuyo Yano tells of her encounter with the fortepiano: “In Venice, in 2001, I played the complete Mozart sonatas for violin and piano together with the violinist Giuliano Carmignola. Andrea Marcon, another eminent Italian musician, told me after one of these concerts that I should consider playing fortepiano. I took his advice and I am today still thankful for it, because working with the fortepiano has opened up entirely new dimensions for me. On the one hand, the fortepiano enables me to imagine and hear how the music must have sounded back in those days, and on the other hand, the fortepiano is quite different to modern pianos, offering a large spectrum for creative leeway with a rich palette of sound colours, a wide range of dynamics and the delicate response of the keyboard to touch. I had not expected all of this! But it was quite a long journey to master the instrument so that I was able to reveal these characteristics – a journey with a wonderful reward as it has led me to Schubert.”

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