Schubert: Pno Sonatas D960 / 459 & 840 on CD

ABC classics launches it's new Australian masters series with a 3 CD collection featuring Tessa Birnie's legendary interpretation of Schubert's B-flat major piano sonata and ground-breaking performance of Beethoven's moonlight sonata in the lower key of b minor. Regarded as one of the world's foremost interpreters of Schubert, New Zealand-born Australia-based Birnie was a profound musical thinker as well as a virtuoso and these recorded performances capture many of the highlights from her 40-year career.