A request for more from Friedrich Wuhrer and he we have it. Wuhrer performs sonatas in C minor and B Major, originally issued on Vox and here on Dover. I would say these mono recordings date from the mid 50's since Wuhrer made a lot of records during this time frame, right into the 60's.
Unfortunately for Friedrich Wuhrer, he has been overshadowed by many geniuses of the keyboard and a few overtly strange and overbearing ones at that! Wuhrer himself was a consumate, quiet artist who possessed great technique, terrific and tasteful musicianship and a firm grasp of the keyboard works of the great German and Austrian masters. In short, he was a man that could go about his business in well, a businesslike manner, though producing a product that was not at all businesslike sounding. Good music, without extremism, consistent, and faithfully rendered, that's Wuhrer.
I have grown to love, and appreciate, these Schubert sonatas because they are so beautiful and bear the stamp of the master lieder writer that this composer was. Unlike the drama and angst of late Beethoven, the exhaustion of it you might say, Schubert's music unfolds naturally and gradually. Given Wuhrer's strength's, he is indeed a superb advocate for Schubert.
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