Available Editions and Recordings
Several highly acclaimed editions of Schubert's last sonatas are available, namely those of Bärenreiter, Henle, Universal, and Oxford University Press. These editions have, however, occasionally received some criticism for the wrong interpretation or notation of Schubert's intentions, on issues such as deciphering the correct pitches from the manuscript, notating tremoli, discriminating between accent and decrescendo markings, and reconstructing missing bars.
The sonatas have been performed and recorded by numerous pianists. Many, especially the devoted Schubert performers, have recorded the entire sonata trilogy (and often all of Schubert's sonatas or his entire piano repertoire altogether). Others have sufficed with only one or two of the sonatas. Of the three sonatas, the last (in B-flat) is the most famous and most often recorded. The following is an incomplete list of pianists who have made notable commercial recordings of the sonata trilogy, in full or in part:
- Entire sonata trilogy: Leif Ove Andsnes, Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel (several recordings), Richard Goode, Wilhelm Kempff, Walter Klien, Stephen Kovacevich, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini, András Schiff, Andreas Staier, Mitsuko Uchida.
- Sonata in C minor: Sviatoslav Richter.
- Sonata in A: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jorge Bolet, Christoph Eschenbach, Murray Perahia, Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin.
- Sonata in B-flat: Paul Badura-Skoda, Daniel Barenboim (2 recordings), Clifford Curzon, Jörg Demus, Leon Fleisher (2 recordings), Clara Haskil, Vladimir Horowitz (2 recordings), Sviatoslav Richter (4 recordings), Arthur Rubinstein (2 recordings), Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin (2 recordings).
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