Famous final works are a bit like famous last words: people attach special significance to them.
It is as though the composer had deliberately drawn a line under it all. Now everything has been said! The final piano sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert stand as the finest proof of this. Both works sound so moving, so self-contained, so timeless that they continue to touch audiences to the very core to this day. In her recital programme – timed to coincide with the Beethoven Year 2027, during which we will also be celebrating the 230th anniversary of Franz Schubert’s birth – Hélène Grimaud takes on these timeless masterpieces. And what better performer could there be to bring Schubert’s musical poetry and Beethoven’s philosophical depth to life for us?
Franz Schubert: Sonata in B flat major, Op. post. D 960; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (Source: KTK Heinersdorff)
