Schubert: Late Piano Works – Volume 1

Lucchesini was born in 1965 in Tuscany, for him music knows no limits, and studying musical modernism has, naturally, informed Lucchesini’s approach to his favourite composers of the past, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. The series opens with two sonatas that are closely linked to one another, alongside the atmospheric ‘Allegretto in C Minor, D915’ of 1827. The ‘Sonata in A Minor, D537’, written when Schubert was twenty years old, features a dance-like melody to which he would return eleven years later when he worked on his mature ‘Sonata in A Major, D959’. The reworking of the theme highlights the distance between Schubert’s middle and late creative periods. What is initially a rousing, though slightly traditional tune, later appears embedded in a richer harmonic framework, but also in a more virtuosic form, at times almost transfigured.