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Gifted as he was, Schubert sometimes let his Music run on and on and on to no particular purpose. 78played by Vladimir Ashkenasy (London CS 6920). Starting, then, with Schubert and taking the pianists in alphabetical order, we begin with the Sonata in G, Op. Since it is through such repetition and competition that much excellence in recorded musical performance and interpretation has been achieved, no one is going to suggest a permanent moratorium on the doing and redoing of the same pieces. The Schwann Catalogue is definitely not lacking for listings of these composers, but wherever there's a pianist (and a willing record company) hope always springs eternal that a new interpretaton will surpass all others, win a Grammy award and sell out at Sam Goody's. So it is not really surprising that a stack of recent recordings consists entirely of piano music by Schubert and Chopin. In any case, pianists who do not busy themselves with music composed by somebody between 18 are apt to be idle pianists. We are too close to the past 35 years to know how they will impress future observers, but it is difficult, somehow, to think that 20thcentury composers have provifled us with comparable riches since 1939. There was also Mendelssohn and the quantity and variety of it all staggers the imagination.

90 on, all of Schumann's significant works and a huge stack of Liszt's original piano works and transcriptions. In addition to the entire piano output of both Schubert and Chopin, these three‐and‐one‐half decades saw the composition of Beethoven's piano sonatas from Op. BETWEEN the beginning of Schubert's mature composing career in 1814 and the death of Chopin in 1849 lay 35 years of fantastic musical productivity that, among many other things, provided pianists with much, if not most, of the repertory that sustains them today.