Richard Goode

Schubert: Sonata in C minor, D.958

Schubert: Sonata in A, D.959

Interval

Schubert: Sonata in B flat, D.960

The distinguished American pianist Richard Goode has forged an exceptional worldwide reputation across the decades.

Tonight he dedicates his programme to the last three piano sonatas by Schubert, masterpieces written in quick succession during the last year of the composer’s short life.

The C minor work explores stormy territory with compulsive power; the A major contrasts extremes of expansive beauty and anarchic terror; and finally the B flat Sonata is among Schubert’s best-loved late works, both radiant and heart-breaking.