Reactions to this recording of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959 by pianist Arcadi Volodos will depend to an unusual degree on individual tastes. This is brilliantly executed but unusual Schubert, and even if some aspects are off-putting, it demands attention. You might think of it as Russian Schubert: if Rachmaninov had played Schubert in recital, it might have sounded like this. Volodos shapes every phrase in great detail, with a variety of touch and articulation perhaps unmatched on the contemporary scene. The ...
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Reactions to this recording of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959 by pianist Arcadi Volodos will depend to an unusual degree on individual tastes. This is brilliantly executed but unusual Schubert, and even if some aspects are off-putting, it demands attention. You might think of it as Russian Schubert: if Rachmaninov had played Schubert in recital, it might have sounded like this. Volodos shapes every phrase in great detail, with a variety of touch and articulation perhaps unmatched on the contemporary scene. The results are most impressive in the sonata's slow movement, which has a truly remarkable sustained hypnotic quality. Elsewhere, Volodos avoids the songful quality typically associated with Schubert, and perhaps what you think of his playing here will hang on whether you think Schubert's larger works are songs writ large or something else entirely. In the finale, the usual artless quality of the main theme is strikingly absent. Coming from the classic readings by Alfred Brendel or...
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