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Album Summary
Performer
Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Notes & Reviews:
Iconic Deutsce Grammophon pianist and celebrated Schubert interpreter Maria Joao Pires returns to further explore the music of the quintessential romantic composer; deepening a musical relationship that has captivated critics and public alike throughout her career. The Portuguese pianist has not recorded either of these sonatas for DG before and this recording of the brooding and expansive Sonata no. 16 in A minor is her first for any label.
Pires's recording of Schubert's Impromtus is a best-seller with sales exceeding 100,000 album units.
Both her DG debut recital and the acclaimed 1997 album, Voyage Magnifique, revealed Maria Joao Pires's unique empathy with the clarity of gesture and melodic line in the solo music Schubert and this new album, combining the rarely heard Sonata No. 16 with one of the composer's best-loved late works, adds to her acclaimed discography of the composer.
The prospect of this most elusive and magical of pianist by the Daily Telegraph turning her austere, intense keyboard sorcery by the Bloomberg to the contrasting emotions of the ethereal B flat Sonata and the tempestuous Sonata in A minor, is surely one all fans of truly great pianism will relish.
Financial Times, 9th February 2013
Her performances are characteristically thoughtful - too much so for my liking. Pires's approach is more high Romantic than late Classical, constantly oscillating between loud and soft, fast and slow, with the sort of artful phrasing that, instead of suggesting the music's architectural scale and emotional anguish, ends up limiting them. She is at her most persuasive in the central movements of D845 and the Scherzo of D960.
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Pires has recorded Schubert's B flat major Sonata D960 before, as part of a series of Schubert discs for Erato in the mid-1990s, and in terms of timings the two performances are often strikingly similar...What remains unchanged is the patience with which Pires allows Schubert's music to unfold so naturally that nothing seems forced or contrived.
Recording information: Hamburg-Harburg, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle (07/2011).
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Works Details
Schubert, Franz : Sonata for Piano in A minor, D 845/Op. 42 - Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
- Running Time: 39 min. 9 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 05/1825
Schubert, Franz : Sonata for Piano in B flat major, D 960 - Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
- Running Time: 42 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 09/1828
