& Franz Shubert Sonatas ,too.. "underrated "

Божественный звук....

Only the first two movements of this were completed. So what ever genius the sketchy (not even almost completed) last two movements show is unfulfilled. Most pianists just treat this like Schubert's Symphony 8 - a two movement work.

It was a favorite of his and a revelation of the greatness of a previously neglected work

S.Richter made F.Shubert's Piano Sonatas simple "revival" !

I first heard this sonata (the two finished movements only) played by Wilhelm Kempff as part of his magnificent set of the entire cycle of Schubert's piano sonatas (released in 1978 as a 9-LP box). Kempff's rendition is more lied-ish, more singing and brings out the "endless melody" quality of these grand movements, I think he is also using the legato pedal a bit more than Richter does, and is less strict about keeping the same tempo/pulse all the time. To Kempff this sonata was a major discovery, even after he had been playing the composer's music for decades, and it does have a symphonic scale, as if it were the piano short score of a high romantic symphony. What was not known at the time of any oft hese recordings is that the "Great C major" symphony was largely composed in 1825 (not in 1827-28), so it is in a sense the follow-up to this first attempt in the same key. I would say I prefer Kempff's playing on this one, but Richter is one of the greats and it is also very interesting to get to hear the sketches of the two unfinished movements.

Music-ologists : people who can't play well enough, compose, arrange or conduct, but want to be involved. So they pretend that running musical data through the materialist logic chopper yields insights of value. Keeps them out of pool halls and bars, I suppose.

@@debwagner7505 not agree. Musicologist are important. They found new ways to interpret music. Also they are musicologist that are musicians too. Without musicologists some music would be forgotten for ever. They found manuscripts and organize by opus number and they do a lot of other things

@@alanleoneldavid1787 I would agree with you, if Musicologists did find and organize compositions ONLY. But they have been managing to destroy many significant music pieces, giving them “new modern” interpretations, forgetting the originals. They make new clothes out of old, fabulous garments, so to speak. The biggest and ugliest transformations were done with Schubert, Mozart and Chopin. The young and not so young musicians, following influential musicologists, are turning timeless creations upside down, thinking they can upgrade them. Most of what musicologists write is done for one reason- advance themselves. Very few of them are really concerned with the composer or the audience.

They were started by Schubert and likely completed by Brian Newbould, who completed the 8th Symphony.

This sonata was abandoned by Schubert himself

The sonata was abandoned when writing the menuetto. But the trio was written. Only a few bars of the rondo are Schubert.

I investigated it's Krenek. Why does he stop playing?

No, it isn't Krenek. He does not go beyond what Schubert himself has written, hence the abrupt ending.

а что можно говорить о святом человеке и космическом музыканте?слова пустой звук.

listen to 21 and 18 sonatas of Schubert. And yes,Richter was German Style Pianist

Beethoven op. 1112? 😕🙄

Daniel Li Just gentle.

Schubert was one of the best Romantic composers of the 19th century, never the same through out his short life. This sonata, like sparkling wine, light and bubbly, but invoking deep feelings. And that is how Richter plays it.