F. Schubert Sonata A major D. 959 Mov 2. Andantino. Valentina Lisitsa

For the notes for the complete Sonata see here I put this slow movement separately on purpose because I can imagine that listening to an entire 45 minutes long piece is not an easy introduction to late pieces by Schubert, if this is your first try :) In fact, this is EXACTLY how I met this marvelous sonata. I was something like 10 or 11 years of age and my teacher gave me a task to learn A major Schubert Sonata. Of course, he meant the early little sonata :) But, hey, I was a kid and had no I opened the score, looked with sheer horror at the amount of pages, poked at the first lines of the easiest movement to and I have fallen in love with it forever. To make the long story short, I did learn the entire Sonata and played it without giving much thought to the pressure even the most mature pianists experience when TRYING to sound, well, mature :) This must have been a comical sight, a little pixie w