Franz Schubert - Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894

Paul Lewis has just emerged from a vast Beethoven project (the complete sonatas and piano concertos), greeted all over the world as a landmark and completed in 2011 by the Diabelli Variations – and now he returns to Franz Schubert, the other key focus of his concert career, the other pillar of his discography. In this double album, three late sonatas are accompanied by two sets of short pieces brimming with inventiveness, the Impromptus and Klavierstücke – once heard, never forgotten.

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Disc 1
Piano Sonata in D major, op.53 D.850
Ré majeur / D-Dur
I. Allegro
II. Con moto
III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
IV. Rondo. Allegro moderato
Piano Sonata in G major, op.78 D.894, "Fantaisie"
Sol majeur / G-Dur
I. Molto moderato e cantabile
II. Andante
III. Menuetto. Allegro moderato
IV. Allegretto
Disc 2
Vier Impromptus op.90 D.899
I. Allegro molto moderato
C minor / ut mineur / c-Moll
II. Allegro
E flat major / Mi bémol majeur / Es-Dur
III. Andante mosso
G flat major / Sol bémol majeur / Ges-Dur
IV. Allegretto
A flat minor / la bémol mineur / as-Moll
Piano Sonata
I. Moderato
II. Andante
Drei Klavierstücke, D.946
I. Allegro assai. Andante. Andantino
II. Allegretto
III. Allegro
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