Piano Sonatas Vol.2: Badura-skoda(Fp)

This is the most coherently and consistently interpreted complete Schubert Sonata cycle ever done. Badura-Skoda allows the listener to hear the composer’s development from the less familiar early works to the mature masterpieces. The result is that more can be heard in the supposedly ’immature’ Schubert Sonatas than ever before and a journey of artistic exploration and development emerges which puts the Schubert cycle in its rightful place beside that of Beethoven. The annotations and presentation are superb. The exquisite sounds Badura-Skoda coaxes from several historic instruments makes the case for the period piano as well or better than any other series of recordings.