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From Edinburgh, pianist Steven Osborne performs music by Schubert, Tippett and Beethoven.

International pianist Steven Osborne opens his recital with the first of Schubert’s Four Impromptus D935. Schubert wrote to a publisher that each Impromptu in this second set could ‘appear singly or all four together’, despite Schumann’s allegation that they were secretly a sonata. Michael Tippett’s Second Piano Sonata follows, an uncompromising work, full of contrast, that quotes from his opera King Priam. Steven closes his recital with Beethoven’s final glorious sonata in C minor.

Schubert: Impromptu D935, No 1
Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op111

Steven Osborne, piano

Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe

Photo Credit: Ben Ealovega

57 minutes

Last on

Fri 13 Aug 202113:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.935 (no.1 in F minor)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.

  • Michael Tippett

    Sonata no. 2

    Performer: Steven Osborne.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no. 32 in C minor Op.111

    Performer: Steven Osborne.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Aug 202113:00
    BBC Radio 3