Shai Wosner - Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas D840 & D850;
6 German Dances D820; Hungarian Melody D817 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 197 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx | # ONYX 4073 | Time: 01:16:24
6 German Dances D820; Hungarian Melody D817 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 197 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx | # ONYX 4073 | Time: 01:16:24
With this recital Shai Wosner declares himself a Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character. Entirely modern in style (tonally lean and sharply focused, never given to easy or sentimental options), he relishes every twist and turn in the so-called Reliquie Sonata, with its quasi-orchestral, defiantly unpianistic first movement and its astonishing second movement modulations (Alkan himself never wrote anything more boldly experimental). Unlike Richter in his monolithic recording, Wosner opts for the two completed movements rather than allowing the music to evaporate into thin air, displaying throughout a finely concentrated sense of music that achieves its vision and depth through extreme austerity.