Schubert: The Secret Melody Mathieu Gaudet

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537:
• 1 Schubert: Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537: I. Allegro ma non troppo 11:21
• 2 Schubert: Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537: II. Allegretto quasi andantino 07:50
• 3 Schubert: Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537: III. Allegro vivace 04:50
• 8 Scottish Dances, D. 529:
• 4 Schubert: 8 Scottish Dances, D. 529 03:13
• Sonata No. 19 in A Major, D. 959:
• 5 Schubert: Sonata No. 19 in A Major, D. 959: I. Allegro 16:45
• 6 Schubert: Sonata No. 19 in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino 08:04
• 7 Schubert: Sonata No. 19 in A Major, D. 959: III. Scherzo & Trio. Allegro vivace 05:34
• 8 Schubert: Sonata No. 19 in A Major, D. 959: IV. Rondo. Allegretto 12:45
• Total Runtime 01:10:22

Info for Schubert: The Secret Melody

For the tenth part of his series of Schubert's complete sonatas and major works for piano, Mathieu Gaudet turns to a work of undisguised Romanticism: Sonata No. 4 in A minor (D 537), composed in 1817. While the outer movements are highly dramatic in character, the central slow movement contains a long and enchanting melody of an almost fragile delicacy. He returned to this melody eleven years later, in 1828, using it as the theme of the last movement of Sonata No. 19 in A major D 959, his penultimate sonata. This Allegretto is perhaps the most 'Schubertian' of all: it is generous, graceful, full of hope despite a weighty melancholy, and always in motion. Schubert's return to the melody he had composed when he was 20 testifies to his particular love for it. It was his personal anthem, his secret melody.

Mathieu Gaudet, piano

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