Schubert: Piano Sonata in G Major, (Volodos)

Schubert’s most tranquil sonata, which is also one of his most important. Schumann famously regarded this as a perfect sonata. It’s an anti-virtuoso work, where the difficulties are vast but almost purely interpretive: nearly all the music happens in shades and shadows, in the rests between notes. How do you make sense -- on a modern grand -- of those long moments of harmonic statis, of those repeated notes, repeated chords, repeated figurations and passages? Volodos plays this to perfection, handling the s