The great Portuguese pianist Maria Joćo Pires has issued some career-defining albums in the first years of the 21st century, and this 2013 album, covering perhaps Franz Schubert's two most ambitious sonatas, is certainly among them. It's a challenging yet sensuous performance with enough in it to reward many multiple hearings. The two sonatas are treated somewhat differently, but both readings find a midpoint between the big old-fashioned concert-hall Schubert and newer readings, often on historical instruments, that ...
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The great Portuguese pianist Maria Joćo Pires has issued some career-defining albums in the first years of the 21st century, and this 2013 album, covering perhaps Franz Schubert's two most ambitious sonatas, is certainly among them. It's a challenging yet sensuous performance with enough in it to reward many multiple hearings. The two sonatas are treated somewhat differently, but both readings find a midpoint between the big old-fashioned concert-hall Schubert and newer readings, often on historical instruments, that emphasize the intimate, somewhat intellectual nature of the circle for which Schubert composed a lot of his music. Pires delivers plenty of power, but these are at heart performances that delve deeply into the music. The Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. 960, is the more restrained of the two here, and that is in a sense its point: Pires gives shape to this gigantic work without ever raising her voice or resorting to grand gestures, and in so doing she creates music with a preternatural...
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