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"...Oppitz [has] technical skill [and] intellectual command to play these scores, which he projects with absolute control and massive tone... I can say that even in the face of formidable competition from so many pianists past and present, Oppitz deserves your attention." -- Jerry Dubins, FANFARE [reviewing Oppitz playing Beethoven]
In this fifth installment of Gerhard Oppitz's recordings of the piano works of Franz Schubert, he has selected the "Grande Sonata" in A Minor D 845. This large-scale work was composed in 1825, shortly after he had finished his String Quartet in D Minor, "Death and the Maiden." The "Grand Sonata" was one of only three of Schubert's Piano Sonatas that were
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published in his lifetime, and it became immediately popular with contemporary critics.
The Sonata in B major D 575 dates from 1817 and despite the bright, B Major tonality is a stormy and eruptive work.
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Works on This Recording
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Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, Op. 147, D. 575: I. Allegro ma non troppo
Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, Op. 147, D. 575: II. Andante
Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, Op. 147, D. 575: III. Scherzo: Allegretto
Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, Op. 147, D. 575: IV. Allegro giusto
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845: I. Moderato
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845: II. Andante poco moto
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845: III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845: IV. Rondo: Allegro vivace
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