Suspense - Franz Schubert & Franz Liszt

Schubert's last piano sonata is considered to have paved the way to the High Romantic full stop, and in combination with Liszt's most important piano sonata as the virtuoso climax of the Romantic piano literature, this piano concerto offers a musical treat. What unites Schubert and Liszt is not only their obvious bond through music. They used a stylistic device familiar today in theatre and film, which finds its expression in the subliminal presence of the inevitable, the imminent transience: suspense.