Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 33'
Piano Sonata in C major, D812, 'Grand Duo' 39'
Imogen Cooper piano
Paul Lewis piano
There will be no interval
Pianists Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis return for the final Late Night Prom of the festival.
Cooper plays Schubert's late, great Piano Sonata in C minor, its scherzo still informed by the Rossinian joie de vivre of the early symphonies, the surrounding movements infused with the sorrow and resignation of the song-cycles Winterreise and Schwanengesang.
Published posthumously, the symphonically conceived 'Grand Duo' dates from the summer of 1824, when the composer was engaged as music master to Marie and Caroline Esterházy on the family's Slovakian estate.