Ferenc Vizi - Schubert (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The D. 664 sonata was written during the summer of 1819, the same period as the Trout Quintet and in the same key of A major, when Schubert was accompanied by the famous singer and devoted friend Vogl on a journey to upper Austria, Linz and then Steyr.

There is no need to emphasise what the music clearly projects: if Schubert wanted to write a Spring Journey rather than his famous Winterreise, this music would fit perfectly. From the very first notes the music evokes an enchanted awakening in joyous natural surroundings, shining in the traveller’s eye. In his book La musique de piano, Guy Sacre was spot on: “Do you believe he had to struggle in front of a blank page, like Jacob wrestling with the angel, to write this lyrical opening theme? We awake with him, like him embracing the promise and the fulfilment, the flower and the fruit.”

The second movement flows in an intimate Schubertian serenity before the torrential last movement, the villagers, their dances, their famous yodelling. We hear the bells as the flocks pass, ringing like a childhood memory and that made me want to dress the returning theme in a veil of resonance, like a glittering powder of gilded nostalgia.

The four D. 935 Impromptus have a certain unity through their similar key relationships and the harmony of their structural frameworks.

Tracklist:
01. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664, Op. posth. 120: I. Allegro moderato
02. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664, Op. posth. 120: II. Andante
03. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664, Op. posth. 120: III. Allegro
04. Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935, Op. posth. 142: Impromptu No. 1 in F Minor (Allegro moderato)
05. Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935, Op. posth. 142: Impromptu No. 2 in A-Flat Major (Allegretto)
06. Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935, Op. posth. 142: Impromptu No. 3 in B-Flat Major "Rosamunde" (Andante)
07. Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935, Op. posth. 142: Impromptu No. 4 in F Minor (Allegro scherzando)


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