Haydn2032 - No.16

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Rautavaara - Aho

joy & asymmetry

Doux Silence

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - François Lazarevitch

Fauré: Requiem (1888)
Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina

Crossroads

Ksenija Sidorova plays Bach, Akhunov, Tabakova & Montero

Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots

Kuhnau: "Uns ist ein Kind geboren"

Weihnachtskantaten

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem

Schnittke: Film Music - Vol.6

Little Tragedies

Clarinet Trios

Hartmann - Gade - Mendelssohn

Monteverdi: Testamento - Vespro della Madonna 1643

New Monteverdi Verspers from his true musical testament

Sorabji: Vocal and Chamber Works

Pietro Auletta: L'Orazio

(World Premiere Recording)

Wilms: Symphony No.6 & Overtures
Music of the Angels

Sonatas in A major & B flat major D 959 & 960

Sonatas in A major & B flat major D 959 & 960
SCHUBERT Franz (1797-1828) Ronald Brautigam (Fortepiano) Label : BIS Records
Artikelnummer: BIS2624 1 SACD Hybrid Spielzeit : 081:39
CHF 21.00


The sonatas are played here on a fortepiano built by Paul McNulty after an instrument from around 1819 by the Viennese Conrad Graf and presumably similar to the instrument on which Schubert composed. Although it is tempting to see Schubert's final works as the testament of a doomed artist who feels his end is nearing, the composer displayed vitality, optimism and a prodigious capacity for work. His last two sonatas also show that he had emancipated himself from the Beethovenian model.