SCHUBERT - Piano Sonata in c minor (Valery Afanassiev)

Franz Schubert (1797~1828) D958 _ Piano Sonata in c minor () 00:01 I Allegro 13:17 II Adagio 24:17 III Menuetto. Allegro - Trio 28:42 IV Allegro Piano : Valery Afanassiev Rec : ~28 Studio / Japan ■ Biography Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow. He studied piano at the Academic Music College and Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak. He was the winner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1968, as well as 1st prize recipient at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 1971. Afanassiev become widely known in the 1980s due to his musical partnership with Gidon Kremer. Their joint recordings of chamber works by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms were highly praised. His interpretations of solo piano works by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and the others have aroused controversy on account of Afanassiev’s tempi choices and idiosyncratic expressiveness.