"A Korean pupil of Leon Fleisher, now teaching at the Crane School of Music in New York, Young-Ah tak brings a spring to the meditative step of D894's epic opening Molto moderato. The keynote is nobility rather than world-weariness, and Schubert's song-writing runs through the veins of her phrasing. I find the forthright pulse and 18th-century elegance of her Andante no less persuasive: partly a matter of the exceptionally rich and immersive sound, which projects bass weight and top-register lyricism with equally well-modulated fidelity from a front-row perspective. There's nothing fey or fancy about Tak's Schubert. The A minor D784 sets out with bold intent, unburdened by anachronistically pathos, always seeking the heart of the phrase, capped by a fiery finale where every note of the counterpoint means something. My only complaint is the short measure (54 minutes) from a pianist who has the full measure of Schubert on a modern piano."