26 Sonata (see Recital 6) and the 'sonate quasi fantasie' pair of Op. 27 (see Recital 3), Beethoven appears to step back again with his next work in the medium, his D major Sonata, Op. 28.

Alfred Brendel introduces Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D960 for piano.

At best this conveys a determination to control the music rather than let it flow, and in the B major Sonata it also effaces the crucial contrast Schubert asks for in the development section (from ...