Schubert, Mozart, Ravel, and Rebecca Saunders. Surprising piano recital by William Youn!
Franz Schubert is also one of the absolute greats in the piano solo repertoire. The mysterious opening motif of his Sonata in A, D784, could be the ideal introduction to a lied about a gloomy, fearful ‘Wanderer’. And yet Schubert does not need words to evoke this chilling setting. In his Sonata in A, D664, he exchanges drama for a charming cantabile. The ‘Allegro’ prompts us to dream of Mozart, that other master of melody. William Youn combines Schubert and Mozart with Ravel’s ‘Miroirs’. He reflects these three composers around a central axis, shaped by the aptly named ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’ by composer Rebecca Saunders.