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B flat major d major12/27/2023 ![]() The pianist András Schiff has gone so far as to call it “the most extraordinary trill in the history of music.” It returns as a haunting presence throughout the first movement and at times shifts the harmonic path towards G-flat major and its enharmonic equivalent of F-sharp minor. ![]() This mysterious intrusion gives us a glimpse of the terrifying, yet fleeting, nocturnal shadows of Schubert’s Erlkönig. Suddenly, the serene melody is interrupted by the ghostly rumble of a low G-flat trill which breaks off into silence. In the opening bars of the first movement, we enter a world of celestial calm, reverence, and lament. 21, there is a similar sense of timelessness, quiet majesty, and cosmic expanse. This music unfolds with an effortless stream of melody which is shaped by sudden, transcendent modulations. Robert Schumann described the “heavenly length” of Schubert’s “Great” Ninth Symphony. ![]() Yet, the journey we take is distinctly introspective and solitary. Marek described as “works in which meditation, charm, wistfulness, sadness and joy are housed in noble structures.” Alfred Brendel said that these pieces “lead us into romantic regions of wonderment, terror and awe.” They inhabit the same place of mystery and divine revelation we encounter in Beethoven’s late string quartets. Completed in the autumn of 1828 during the final months of the composer’s life, it concludes a set of three piano sonatas which the biographer George R. This was Franz Schubert’s last instrumental work. “It is one of those occasions when the pen has to be set down on the desk, the body rested against the back of a chair, and a listener’s whole being surrendered to another sphere.” “The opening movement of the Sonata in B-flat Major goes beyond analysis,” writes the pianist Stephen Hough.
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