French pianist Adam Laloum is joining prestigious label harmonia mundi for a new album dedicated to Schubert. The album is an example of this young artist’s attractiveness. Laloum makes his piano sing and offers an intensely melancholic poetic vision with a personal and smooth touch. Lesser known than Schubert’s last three sonatas, the Sonata in G major, D. 894 is one of the few pieces published when the composer was still alive. Schumann saw it as his most perfect work and Liszt loved it. The Sonata in C minor, D. 958 was edited ten years after Schubert’s death. It was composed in the fall of 1928, a few weeks before the musician’s death from syphilis. The piece is infused with Schubert’s doubts, demons and fear of his upcoming death. Adam Laloum wonderfully translates the fraternal spirit of dear Franz Schubert, who almost seems to apologize for the piece’s severity, by adding glimpses of bright recklessness or fatalism. © François Hudry/Qobuz