Always a must

There are about a year, Sony brought together into a small box of 3 CDs in his collection "Radio Classic Masters" key prints Rudolf Serkin in Schubert apostle. Two years earlier were grouped in Beethoven's an essential 11 CD Masters cabinet; So now is the box-Schubert Masters, which uses exactly the discs of the previous case "Radio" raised some recordings (or the art of distilling this pianistic legacy marketing dropper;).

Are added, with respect to enclosure "Radio", some concert shots, starting with the Trio No. 2 with the Busch brothers captured the Marlboro Festival in 1951 (we do not fail however to pick the first recorded version in 1935, with the Fantasy D.934, an authentic marvel discography). From the same Marlboro Festival 1960, two lieder room (both with soprano and clarinet, also with one horn), offer an interesting addition to an already essential trout. The last CD offers us a second version of the Sonata D.960, after the concert given by Serkin on the occasion of his 75th birthday at Carnegie Hall in New York (by the way, nobody would have also moaned if Sony had included the entire concert, not even Schubert, instead of this one sonata ...).

Anyway, these records are of course essential for all Schubert, and everyone will enjoy as he lacks the opportunity or not this set cheap.

The Schubert Serkin as splashed his Beethoven is a pianism traveled with powerful energy and natural speech. A Schubert speech that is also not focused on the fragility, roundness, or charm. True to its ascetic design, the Maestro may seem at first severe or stiff, lacking immediate seduction; It is intense and clear reality as can be a truth revealed without compromise.

In total concentration and a compelling desire to recount, undressing one might say, unvarnished and without mystery, Serkin not trying to cut corners; it uses to mark the relief, avoiding any temptation to embellish, questioning more than the metaphysical physics. An interpretation that is both personal and unwavering, with an almost disembodied piano, as if he wondered himself closer to the prophecy of poetry, and a total Schubert decoction where there is intelligence and naked 'irresistibility of style.

Below is the detailed content of the box:

= 1 CD = Sonata op.posth. D.959 (February 1966) - 4 Impromptus op.142 D.935 (January 1979)
CD = 2 = Sonata D.960 op.posth (September 1975) - Sonata D.840 "Reliquie" (mono, March 1955)
= CD = 3 Piano Quintet op.114 D.667 "Trout" (with Jaime Laredo, Philipp Naegele, Leslie Parnas, and Julius Levine, captured the Marlboro Festival August 15, 1967)
- Auf dem Strom op.119 D.943, and "Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" op.129 D.965 (with soprano Benita Valente, Myron Bloom horn and clarinet Harold Wright, captured at the Marlboro Festival August 1960)
CD = 4 = 6 Moments Musicaux op.94 D.780 (mono, 8 December 1952) - Piano Trio No. 2 op.100 D.929 (with Adolf and Hermann Busch, mono, October 1951)
CD = 5 = op.posth Sonata D.960 (live at Carnegie Hall in New York, December 14, 1977)