Missy Mazzoli reviews

What is it about Schubert and time? Shai Wosner prefaces his CD with a liner note which comes closer than anything else I have read to identifying what he calls the Schubert Effect. He sees Schubert as ‘the master of expanded time’, most evidenced in his larger works, which despite their Beethovenian echoes unfold through contemplation, rather than through the contrasts which characterise the typical argument of sonata form.