![]() ![]() You may find the second theme of the opening movement inexpressive here, given that it's one of the lyrical highlights in the conventional version. To make all this hang together, the Wiener Mozart-Trio takes the music at a brisk clip, emphasizing the rhythmic threads that hold each movement together. ![]() But it recasts the cyclical quality of the trio into a more narrative form that looked forward to program music from later in the century. Perhaps Schubert felt that razzle-dazzle moment was out of keeping with the rest of the work. Schubert shortened the work by removing the exposition repeats in the first and fourth movements, as well as a striking passage in the finale where the reprise of the slow movement's main theme appears in several new combinations with the finale's subsidiary fugue-like theme. Most of all, the unabridged version stimulates new interpretations of the music. Schubert willingly made the cuts to the first and fourth movements, but it was at a publisher's request, and he may well have been already worrying about posterity and anxious to have his little-known music distributed. 960, both works from the last year of Schubert's life and very much of a piece with this work. 944 ("The Great"), or Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. Yes, it's quite long, but not longer than the Symphony No. However, it's odd how rare recordings of this version have been. 100, as claimed in the booklet Schubert's original, "unabridged" version has been performed before and was recorded by the Altenberg Trio in 1995. ![]() This isn't quite the "first step toward a new tradition of performance" of Schubert's Piano Trio No.
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