Schubert鈥檚 B-Flat Piano Sonata D960
How Schubert's B-Flat Piano Sonata D960 has shaped the lives of three remarkable pianists.
The B-Flat Piano Sonata D960, which Schubert completed two months before his death, in 1828, is a vast and complex work. It is the last of a triptych of piano sonatas that Schubert wrote, possibly in response to the death of his hero Beethoven the year before. Schubert had been a pallbearer at Beethoven鈥檚 funeral.
In this programme, pianists Imogen Cooper, Steven Osborne and James Lisney consider what it is like to play this work. And Andrea Avery and Pamela Rose describe ways in which this sonata has marked and shaped their lives.
(Photo: Portrait of Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna, 1797-1828), Austrian composer. Credit: DEA/A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)
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