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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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Soosan Lolavar joins Andrew for a look at some of the week's new releases.

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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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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.2 in C minor Op.17 'Little Russian' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
    • Eastman: Symphony No. 2 鈥� Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2.
    • The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • 104.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Oh, Sole! ti vela di tenebre oscure (Il pirata)

    Singer: Eleonora Buratto. Choir: Coro del teatro Carlo Felice di Genova. Orchestra: Orchestra del teatro Carlo Felice di Genova. Conductor: Sesto Quatrini.
    • Indomita.
    • Pentatone.
    • 104.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    The Bog (Cantus Arcticus)

    Music Arranger: Peter L枚nnqvist. Performer: Morta Grigali奴nait臈.
    • Piano Classics.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Deus, Deus meus (Westminster Mass)

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • Lament & Liberation.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major for the left hand (1st mvt)

    Performer: Yeol Eum Son. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier.
    • Ravel Concertos - Bach/Wittgenstein.
    • Naive.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in C minor BWV.999

    Music Arranger: Paul Wittgenstein. Performer: Yeol Eum Son.
    • Naive.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances Op.45 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Georges Bizet

    La Fuite

    Singer: Marianne Croux. Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Performer: Luca Montebugnoli.
    • Bizet: Les M茅lodies. Enregistrement int茅gral.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 214.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Fantasie in F sharp minor Wq.80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ryo Terakado. Performer: Fabio Bonizzoni.
    • Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 2.

  • Richard Strauss

    Salome's Dance (Salome Op.54)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • R. Strauss: Salome, Op. 54, TrV 215.
    • Chandos.
    • 202.

  • Malcolm Williamson

    Concerto for 2 Pianos & Wind Quintet (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sarah O鈥橣lynn. Performer: Melanie Ragge. Performer: Neyire Ashworth. Performer: Meyrick Alexander. Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Antony Gray. Performer: Joe Howson. Performer: Iain Clark. Performer: Hamish Brown. Conductor: Matt Scott Rogers.
    • Williamson: Chamber Music for Winds & Piano.
    • Divine Art.
    • 126.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Platee (Act 3)

    Ensemble: La Chapelle Harmonique. Conductor: Valentin Tournet.
    • Rameau: Plat茅e.
    • Ch芒teau de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 69.

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