Latest Release
Franz Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 6 (2022)
Repertoire
This sixth volume in Barry Douglas’s acclaimed Schubert series features two major works. The Sonata in A minor, D 845 was completed in 1825, just before Schubert started work on his ‘great’ Symphony in C major. As in so much of his later writing, Schubert is pushing at the boundaries of sonata form, particularly in terms of the harmonic variation he introduces throughout the piece. The second movement takes the form of a theme and variations, as does the third piece of the second major work on the album, the Four Impromptus, D 935. Published after his death in 1828, they were composed in 1827 and, like the Sonata, show all the trademarks of late Schubert.
The programme is completed with Liszt’s transcription of Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ – a sparklingly virtuosic homage to this famous theme, demonstrating once again Barry Douglas’s extraordinary technical facility.
The album was recorded on a Steinway model D in the Curtis auditorium of the MTU Cork School of Music in Ireland.
Full Discography
Tchaikovsky Plus One, Vol.3 (2021)
Schubert - Works for Solo Piano (2018)
BRAHMS Complete Works for Solo Piano (2017)
Schubert - Works for Solo Piano
Volume 2 (2017)
Celtic Airs (2016)
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 6 (2016)
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5 (2015)
Brahms: Works For Solo Piano, Vol 4 (2015)
Brahms: Works For Solo Piano, Vol 3 (2014)
Celtic Reflections (2014)
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano Vol. 1 (2014)
Brahms: Works For Solo Piano, Vol 2 (2013)
Penderecki: Piano Concerto “Resurrection” (2013)
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (2012)
Nino Rota: Concerto Soirée (2011)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 3 (2008)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 and Triple Concerto
(with Chee Yun) (2007)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos
No. 1 & 5 (2006)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos
No. 2 & 4 (2005)
Reger Piano Concerto and Strauss Burleske (1998)
Britten: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op.13 (1997)
Corigliano: Piano Concerto (1996)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1993)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 & 3 (1993)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Concert Fantasia (1993)
Liszt: Sonata in B minor and small pieces, Webern: Variations, Berg: Sonata (1992)
Beethoven: Sonatas
Op. 53, 57, 90 (1991)
Prokofiev: Sonatas No 2 & 7,
3 Pieces from Cinderella,
War & Peace,
Love of 3 Oranges (1991)
Brahms: Piano Quintet, Ballade, 3 Fantasies (1990)
Liszt: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2, Hungarian Fantasy (1989)
Tchaikovsky: Sonata in G,
Pieces from The Seasons (1989)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (1988)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata 29 ‘Hammerklavier’ and Andante Favori WoO 57 (1988)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition,
Liszt: Dante Sonata,
Wagner-Liszt: Isolde's Liebestod (1987)
