Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989)
Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas
Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert can’t have known that he was soon to die, so they probably do not embody the air of resignation and finality future generations have sentimentally insisted they bear. They were however long neglected, all but forgotten, and only in more recent times have they come to be treasured and performed. The repose and wisdom of the maestro, together with the patient observation of one who is no stranger to the idea of the irrevocably lost, of the erasures of history, and of the value of fragile objects passed carefully from generation to generation, is a joy.
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Sonia Wieder-Atherton
as Self
as Self
Alfred Brendel
as Himself
as Himself
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Chantal Akerman
Director
Director
Rose Legrand
Editor
Editor
Nicolas Joly
Sound
Sound
Rémon Fromont
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
