Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor D.958 in Building a Library with Allyson Devenish and Andrew McGregor
Soosan Lolavar joins Andrew McGregor for a look at the week's classical music releases, plus Allyson Devenish picks her favourite recording of Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor.
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Building a Library
Allyson Devenish picks her favourite recording of Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor D.958.
Franz Schubert's last three piano sonatas were written during the final months of his life, between the spring and autumn of 1828. Their grand scale and complexity was at odds with 19th Century fashion for small-scale piano works, so they remained neglected for many years, but the sonatas are now considered among the most important of Schubert's mature masterpieces. The C minor sonata is by turns bold, dramatic and melancholy, with nostalgia for Schubert's beloved Mozart.
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