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Schubert: Last Three Piano Sonatas [CD]

Alfred Brendel Audio CD
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Alfred Brendel studied piano, composition and conducting in Zagreb and Graz, and completed his piano studies with Edwin Fischer, Paul Baumgartner, and Edward Steuermann. His international career began after winning a prize at the 1949 Busoni Competition and he now performs regularly at the world's major musical centres and festivals. He was the first pianist to record ... Read more in Amazon's Alfred Brendel Store

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  • Performer: Alfred Brendel
  • Composer: Franz Schubert
  • Audio CD (9 Nov 1993)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Decca Duo
  • ASIN: B00000417C
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 31,937 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Listen  1. Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor, D.958 - 1. Allegro 7:48£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor, D.958 - 2. Adagio 9:08£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor, D.958 - 3. Menuetto (Allegro) 3:20£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor, D.958 - 4. Allegro 8:58£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D.959 - 1. Allegro12:21£1.49  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D.959 - 2. Andantino 7:57£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D.959 - 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) 4:30£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D.959 - 4. Rondo (Allegretto)13:38£1.89  Buy MP3 


Disc 2:

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Listen  1. Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat, D.960 - 1. Molto moderato14:40£1.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat, D.960 - 2. Andante sostenuto 8:57£1.09  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat, D.960 - 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace con delicatezza) 3:58£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat, D.960 - 4. Allegro ma non troppo 8:31£1.09  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. 3 Klavierstücke, D.946 - No.1 in E flat minor (Allegro assai) 9:05£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. 3 Klavierstücke, D.946 - No.2 in E flat (Allegretto) 9:37£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. 3 Klavierstücke, D.946 - No.3 in C (Allegro) 5:04£0.79  Buy MP3 


Product Description

2CD ...D958-960 & D946/W/Alfred Brendel-Piano

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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Poetic Brendel brings solace to the weary soul 2 April 2010
By John Ferngrove TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Over a period of years Alfred Brendel has been transformed in my mind from my favourite Beethoven interpreter, the one I found most surprising and exciting, to one whose interpretations I came to find ever more jarring. This is no discredit to Brendel as an artist. It's just that as my acquaintance with Beethoven's mighty piano corpus deepens with the years, then my own opinions and expectations about how I want to hear them played naturally enough grow more exacting. Just lately Barenboim is my Beethoven interpreter of choice, but in five years time it could be someone else. However, with these highly treasured Schubert discs I can find no fault in Brendel's playing from beginning to end. He is like a guide on a walk through paradise, who leads without putting a foot wrong. Of course, the pianistic demands of the works on these discs are not quite as formidable as so much of Beethoven's, but this music makes demands on the performer of a different kind. These pieces require a sustained spiritual poise, and a hard won equanimity before the vicissitudes of life, if the vast depths within them are to be opened up to the listener. Indeed, Brendel brings a contemplative intensity and an egoic transparency to these works that is almost Zen-like.

It seems that one way we might distinguish musical works is between those in which we sense the deep stamp of the composer's intent, as when we hear so often of the performer's quest to realise some projection of that intent. On the other hand there are those works which composers have created as vessels in which the performer might pour their own soul, possessed of an indefinite potential for variety of realisation.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars MUSIC 17 Mar 2009
Format:Audio CD
There is nothing more to be added. This interpretation (as many others of the same pianist) are just perfect.
I had the great luck to listen to Brendel in Rome,he played Schubert and for me,it was like to what happened with Beethoven: I rediscovered these extraordinary composers.Brendel makes you appreciate the sensitivity of each artist he approaches. You cannot miss him.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Peerless Brendel 21 Aug 2011
Format:Audio CD
At £8.50 for all the late Schubert sonatas, plus the Klavierstucke, this is superb value. Great sound quality and that wonderful balance and restraint you get from Brendel - no quirkiness, no overplaying the dynamic contrasts, no taking liberties with the tempi, just glorious and majestic playing.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars What needs to be said? 27 Nov 2010
By bristow
Format:Audio CD
What REALLY needs to be said? Brendel in Schubert - even after all these years he is THE master. An indispensable 2 disc set.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful 4 April 2013
By D. Hill
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A beautiful recording that I love listening to. It was competitively priced and incredibly close to the download price, so I went for the real CDs.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A new friend discovered 5 Jun 2009
Format:Audio CD
We are all familiar with the Trout but these piano sonatas are superb. You know that feeling when you discover a new piece of music that becomes a new found friend.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Schubert Piano Sonatas 22 Jan 2010
Format:Audio CD
The two discs of Schubert's Piano Concerto's are excellent the 960 is favourite and is always being played, good recording. I will be coming back for more shortly.
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