Franz Schubert: His final years

Truly, in Schubert there is a divine spark.

The last piano sonatas move between extremes, often taking performer and listener from the darkly tragic and melancholic to a golden transcendence or joyous other-worldliness, all rendered in music of incredible, almost revolutionary inventiveness.

Sonata in A major D959

  1. Allegro 
  2. Andantino 
  3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace — Trio. Un poco più lento 
  4. Rondo. Allegretto

 

Sonata in B-flat major D960

  1. Molto moderato 
  2. Andante sostenuto
  3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza — Trio 
  4. Allegro ma non troppo