Schubert Piano Sonata No. 16 in A Minor D 845 (FULL)

Franz Schubert Piano Sonata No. 16 in A Minor D 845 (FULL)

1. Moderato (0:00)
2. Andante poco moto (7:44)
3. Scherzo & Trio. Allegro vivace - Un poco piu lento (18:00)
4. Rondo. Allegro vivace (23:32)

Seymour Lipkin (Piano)
Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Sheet Music Video

The Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 845 stands as far from the sonatas composed during Schubert's teenage years as one might imagine. Something of the terse, granite-faced quality of the previous A minor Sonata (D. 784 of 1823) is present in the opening movement, Moderato, of D. 845, but now there is also a hint of the starry-eyed otherworldliness -- an absolute disdain for reality -- that mark the final sonatas of 1828 as things truly special. The limber main theme is given right at the start in bare octaves; the second theme, presented in part before we have even arrived at the second theme key area, is really a new spin on the opening idea. Throughout the development section and, later on, the lengthy coda to the movement, the music of the opening bars reappears at length (Description by Blair Johnston)