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The music of Viennese composer Franz Schubert contains a wonderful paradox. It has a piercing sadness, which in some strange way is filled with joy. The joy, I think, comes from the sense that here, ...
We have a mostly Schubert hour ahead, starting with two Impromptus, Op. 90, Nos. 2 and 4, played by Irish pianist John O'Connor in NPR's Studio 4A. O'Connor also says a few words about his earliest ...
Look out for Schubert's Impromptu No. 3, which contains a nod to one of the world's most famous pop songs... Just after he wrote Fly Me to the Moon, Schubert wrote his Impromptu No. 3. Absolute ...