plays Schubert
Adagio (from five piano pieces) Sonata in A, Op. 120
Schubert wrote over a dozen piano sonatas which in form followed the clasical style of Haydn and Mozart. As Schubert was first and foremost
-a great song-writer, it is not unnatural that his sonatas are to some extent influenced by his song-writing. Where for the most part Weber, says William Clock , 'gave old formulae a new brilliance, Schubert s style is altogether new and unique. It is enriched by the whole range of the accompaniment figures in his songs, but more deeply by that quality in his songs which
Alfred Einstein describes as an equipoise between imagery and emotion.'