Hélène Grimaud

«I know not if I’m laughing, I know not if I’m crying.» An enlightening balance of desperation, joie de vivre and calm acceptance, Franz Schubert’s final piano sonata was written just a few weeks before his death. Ludwig van Beethoven offers similar contrasts in Piano Sonata N˚ 32 – his last one – from the impassioned to the sublime.