Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 8 in F sharp minor - First Movement

[saltburner2]

I find this too slow: there is a better realization/completion of this movement [and the whole sonata] by Martino Tirimo on an EMI CD.

Tirimo has also published - as well as recorded - his own edition of the 21 sonatas.

[redpillow100]

usually the recapitulation, last part was left unfinished, the it is most usually the repetition of the first part transitioned 1 or 2 semitones higher as with his other sonatas. the middle part was written, just the last part was left unfininshed. as well as the other movments in the sonata.

[redpillow100]

usually the recapitulation, last part was left unfinished, the it is most usually the repetition of the first part transitioned 1 or 2 semitones higher as with his other sonatas. the middle part was written, just the last part was left unfininshed.

[howdilydoodily]

So, wait a minute...because Schubert technically didn't finish this mvt, there's no conceivable way this pianist could figure out what Schubert could possibly have done in the recapitulation?

Anyone taking the time to learn an unfinished work by Schubert would also know the recap in the 1st mvt of Schubert's B major sonata D 575 (and others) is an EXACT transposition of its exposition.  Really, not that hard. Just finish the work and don't leave the listener hanging. Wiener Urtext, anyone?

[ldskts]

Moon-breathingly sung piano,so beautiful.....

[marumaru91too]

ソナタ中でこの８番が一番お気に入りです

未完成だからこそ、この切ないメロディが際立つと思っています。­

[ClassicalMusicReview]

The breathing between the gestures is lovely,but conversely the equalized steam-ironed and very predictable phrase heirarchies and inner-phrase timing is very unimaginative and doesn't represent the rhetoric or it's affect well.

[D887andD887]

@ClassicalMusicReview What are you talking about? The new melody at 6:45 has the most unpredictable (and imaginative) phrase written in the whole history of music!

[Toxxic88]

I loved this interpretation. Fantastic *****