Schuch is never one to be generic...The Wanderer Fantasy is achingly beautiful, especially the first movement, where he reveals his usual gift for finding about a hundred different gradations...

MusicWeb International, 7th January 2014

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Herbert Schuch plays Schubert & Janacek

Herbert Schuch (piano)

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Schuch is never one to be generic...The Wanderer Fantasy is achingly beautiful, especially the first movement, where he reveals his usual gift for finding about a hundred different gradations...

MusicWeb International, 7th January 2014

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For this CD Herbert Schuch has selected not only two different composers but also two different instruments, to better suit the characteristics of the music.

Release date: 30th Sep 2013
Label: Oehms
Catalogue number: OC863
Length: 58 minutes
Genres:
- Piano Sonatas,
- Piano Solos

Contents and tracklist

Schubert: Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer'

Work length22:38

Herbert Schuch

I. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo

Track length6:30

II. Adagio

Track length7:13

III. Presto

Track length5:10

IV. Allegro

Track length3:45

Janáček: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII / 19 'From the Street'

Work length14:32

Herbert Schuch

I. Foreboding. Con moto

Track length6:26

II. Death. Adagio

Track length8:06

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D664, Op. posth. 120

Work length21:25

Herbert Schuch

I. Allegro moderato

Track length8:28

II. Andante

Track length4:30

III. Allegro

Track length8:27

Awards and reviews

7th January 2014

Schuch is never one to be generic...The Wanderer Fantasy is achingly beautiful, especially the first movement, where he reveals his usual gift for finding about a hundred different gradations in volume, warmth and tonal colour. His Janáček sonata is unusually powerful, especially the moving funeral marches

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