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Schubert: Impromptus, D.935 & Piano Sonata, D.960

Dasol Kim

Solo Piano - Released September 8, 2023 | Aparté

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Schubert: Impromptus D. 899 & D. 935

Krystian Zimerman

Classical - Released January 1, 1991 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Franz Schubert : Impromptus D.899 & D.935

François Chaplin

Solo Piano - Released March 9, 2015 | Aparté

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Schubert: Impromptus D899; Impromptus D935

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released December 2, 1987 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Schubert: Complete Impromptus, D899 & D935; 11 Ecossaises, &c

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released January 1, 1995 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Schubert: Impromptus D935 & D899

Daniel Barenboim

Classical - Released January 1, 1978 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Franz Schubert - Impromptus D.899, 1-4 - D.935, 1-4

Edwin Fischer

Classical - Released August 31, 2023 | Goldberg

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Schubert: Impromptus, D. 935; Pieces, D. 946; Variations, D. 576

Steven Osborne

Classical - Released September 25, 2015 | Hyperion

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Schubert: The Complete Impromptus

Gerardo Teissonnière

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | Steinway and Sons

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Recordings of Schubert's mature piano works seem to be coming thick and fast as their bicentennials approach. This is especially enjoyable in the case of the Impromptus, for the multiple recordings reveal the depth of these pieces and the variety of ways in which they may be approached. The innovations of the Impromptus held implications for the entire Romantic era, and pianists may look backward or forward in playing them. There have been precise historical-instrument readings that convey the vast expansion in the capabilities of the piano that are inherent in Schubert's works, like those of Beethoven, and then there are readings that treat Schubert as a full-blown Romantic. Among the most fervently devoted to that idea is pianist Gerardo Teissonnière, the latest addition to the Steinway & Sons stable. The Impromptus are not especially virtuosic, but in Teissonnière's hands, they are positively Lisztian, with muscular treatments of the many important left-hand passages. Sample the way he treats the imposing opening material of the Impromptu in F minor, Op. 142, No. 1, and hear how the whole piece grows out of the counterpoint at the beginning. The engineers of the Sono Luminus studio capture Teissonnière's mighty Steinway D in full color, and the end result is a Schubert recording that, to a rare degree, puts the listener in the audience for a Schubert performance by Liszt or one of the other great 19th century virtuosi.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 D. 899 & Op. 142 D. 935

Alexei Lubimov

Classical - Released January 8, 2010 | Zig-Zag Territoires

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Listeners who have grown up with the tone of the modern concert grand piano may find the sound of the pianoforte tiny, tinny, pingy, and plunky. But for listeners with adventurous ears, the pianoforte may offer a welcome contrast with the lusher tones and heavier sonorities of the concert grand, and for them the player will be more important than the instrument. And so it is here. Performed on two beautifully restored instruments, Aleksei Lubimov's 2009 recording of Schubert's eight impromptus delivers superb accounts of the well-loved works. Though his tempos are fairly standard, his supple phrasing, subtle shading, and use of rubato give his playing great flexibility. Lubimov makes good use of his instruments by using their innate characteristics to bring out the best in Schubert's keyboard writing so that every line is clear and ideally balanced. The digital sound is more than acceptable, but it may be a tad too tightly focused on the instrument for some listeners.© TiVo
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Schubert: Impromptus, D. 899 & D. 935

Ronald Brautigam

Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | BIS

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The sound environment of the Immanuelskirche in Wuppertal, Germany, is not what the original listeners of Schubert's Impromptus would have heard, yet one can understand what drew the attention of the BIS label's engineers. Fortepianist Ronald Brautigam here plays a copy (by builder Paul McNulty) of an 1819 Graf instrument, and it is an extraordinary thing. Hear the shades that ripple through the instrument in the opening bars of the Impromptu No. 1 in C minor, Op. 90, D. 899, or the sense of entering an enchanted hall in the third impromptu of the set. However, a great instrument would be nothing without intelligent interpretations, and these Brautigam supplies in abundance. He somewhat deemphasizes the melodies, which may seem like a strange thing to do with this greatest of all melodists, but he replaces the melodicism with a range of other effects, reveling in articulation and piano textures that would have been entirely new and thrilling to Schubert's hearers. Listen to the way he pushes the tempo slightly in the main material of the Impromptu No. 2 in A flat major, Op. 142, D. 935, for an idea. Each of these little pieces, whose profundities are revealed only through a lifetime of study, is fully thought through and new in conception. This is a superb outing from one of the absolute masters of historical piano performance.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert: Piano Works, Trout Quintet, Lieder

Artur Schnabel

Classical - Released August 24, 2018 | Warner Classics

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Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 784 & 958

Philippe Guilhon-Herbert

Classical - Released October 4, 2013 | ARTALINNA

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Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 - Schubert: 4 Impromptus D. 935

Annie Fischer

Classical - Released March 8, 2024 | Ica Classics

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Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 6

Barry Douglas

Classical - Released October 28, 2022 | Chandos

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This sixth volume in Barry Douglas’s acclaimed Schubert series features two major works. The Sonata in A minor, D. 845 was completed in 1825, just before Schubert started work on his "great" Symphony in C major. As in so much of his later writing, Schubert is pushing at the boundaries of sonata form, particularly in terms of the harmonic variation he introduces throughout the piece. The second movement takes the form of a theme and variations, as does the third piece of the second major work on the album, the Four Impromptus, D 935. Published after his death in 1828, they were composed in 1827 and, like the Sonata, show all the trademarks of late Schubert. The programme is completed with Liszt’s transcription of Schubert’s Ave Maria – a sparklingly virtuosic homage to this famous theme, demonstrating once again Barry Douglas’s extraordinary technical facility. The album was recorded on a Steinway model D in the Curtis auditorium of the MTU Cork School of Music in Ireland. © Chandos
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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13, D. 664, Impromptus, D. 889 & 935

Aldo Ciccolini

Classical - Released August 25, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935

Peter Takacs

Classical - Released December 2, 2023 | iMD-Peter Takács

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