Review (PDF) Schubert Piano Sonatas (Music Guides)
Series: Music Guides
Paperback: 56 pages
Publisher: BBC Books (November 1968)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0563073942
ISBN-13: 978-0563073949
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #2,412,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #135 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Sheet Music & Scores > Composers > Schubert #294 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Sheet Music & Scores > Forms & Genres > Piano Sonatas #1765 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Sheet Music & Scores > Forms & Genres > Opera
The BBC Music Guides series is a collection of compact musical guidebooks covering selected genres of the classical repertory. Many of the volumes were and are of high quality, and Philip Radcliffe's survey of Franz Schubert's piano sonatas is a representative example. Radcliffe discusses all of the composer's completed piano sonatas, eleven in all, plus several of the important unfinished works, such as the two-movement work in C major, D. 840. In his more extended study of the Beethoven string quartets the author had proved himself a master at conveying the important tonal and structural aspects, as well as the spirit, of a classical work in clear and succinct prose, and "Schubert Piano Sonatas" provides more of the same. Musical examples are relatively few but chosen well. Readers will need a core of musical literacy in order to grasp all of Radcliffe's points, but for those with the requisite knowledge this is a most rewarding and pleasurable read and will encourage them either to return to recordings and performances, or seek them out for the first time.
A realy excellent survey of the Schubert piano sonatas. Not as in-depth as I would like, but it is a survey.
Schubert Piano Sonatas (Music Guides) The Schubert Song Transcriptions for Solo Piano/Series I: "Ave Maria," "Erlkonig" and Ten Other Great Songs (Dover Music for Piano) The Schubert Song Transcriptions for Solo Piano/Series III: The Complete Schwanengesang (Dover Music for Piano) Complete Sonatas and Fantasies for Solo Piano (Dover Music for Piano) Complete Sonatas, Invitation to the Dance and Other Piano Works (Dover Music for Piano) Piano Sonatas (Dover Music for Piano) Complete Piano Sonatas (Dover Music for Piano) Five Great Piano Sonatas (Dover Music for Piano) Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-4: Opp. 1, 14, 28, and 29 (Dover Music for Piano) Complete Piano Transcriptions from Wagner's Operas (Dover Music for Piano) by Liszt, Franz, Classical Piano Sheet Music (1981) Paperback Beethoven - "Pathetique" Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Beethoven Piano Sonatas) (Volume 8) Piano Sonatas - Book 1: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A-flat major, Hob.XVI:46 (Haydn Piano Sonatas) (Volume 8) Piano Sonata in Ab, Op. 110: Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas, An Edition with Elucidation, Volume 2 19 Sonatas - Book 2: Piano Solo (Piano Collection) (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) Masters of the Keyboard, Enlarged Edition: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms (Midland Book) Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano: With Separate Violin Part (Chamber Music Scores) Handel Six Sonatas For Violin& Piano: No1 In A Maj/No2 In G Min/No3 In F Maj Bk/CD (Music Minus One (Numbered)) Domenico Scarlatti: Ninety Sonatas in Three Volumes, Volume I (Dover Music for Piano) Domenico Scarlatti: Ninety Sonatas in Three Volumes, Volume II (Dover Music for Piano)
