Sanna Vaarni, the pianist on this recording, has won prizes in many national piano competitions in Finland and holds a tenured professorship at the Espoo Music Institute.
Composition History
Luciano Berio's Sonata (2000) is a significant work that concludes both his career and his piano repertoire.
Compositional Technique
In Berio's Sonata, a barely whispered B flat pulsation acts as a continuous thread, providing coherence amidst changing metrical patterns and musical events.
Composer Biography
Franz Schubert composed his Sonata in G major, Op. 78, D. 894, in 1826 while increasingly afflicted by syphilis.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, "Within the Waves," refers to a piece by Luciano Berio that is permeated by the memory of water, serving as a bridge between the two sonatas.
Compositional Technique
Luciano Berio described his Sonata as a structure of different blocks held together by continuous transitions, like pylons passing by a train window.
Album & Artwork
This album brings together two sonatas, by Luciano Berio and Franz Schubert, that were the last sonatas published during each composer's lifetime.
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