Following his acclaimed solo debut album of the Late Sonatas of Beethoven, pianist Gerardo Teissonnière brings his “crystalline sound, formidable technique, and exquisite musical taste” (Cleveland ...

“Introspective” might not be the first word one would use to describe the work of Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz, whose eponymous company is presented by Cal Performances in her 2004 “Impromptus” in ...

Lubimov, an unstarry Russian, is an exceptionally probing musician. He favours a pianoforte for the music of Beethoven and Schubert – on this disc he uses restored instruments dating from 1810 and ...

When Murray Perahia gave a concert this year in Portland, Oregon, he saved a couple of Impromptus until the official program was over. Here's Perahia, on stage, playing his first encore — Schubert's ...

Don't be lulled by Cordelia Williams's sweetly cool reading of the first two of Schubert's Impromptus D899 in this recording; there's romantic fire lurking under the surface. No 3 is almost Brahmsian ...

Tim Parry talks to Aimi Kobayashi about late Schubert and the pressure of expectations Perhaps in response to the work of Edward Said, it has become fashionable to think of an artist’s final works as ...

Franz Schubert was a man on a mission, distracted from composing music by neither the praise of Beethoven, nor the prospect of his own death. But the dude still had to pay the rent. Internationally ...

The booklet essay is entitled “Confessions of a Convert”. András Schiff tells how, after initial scepticism, he was won over to playing Schubert on a period fortepiano. He now owns an 1820 instrument ...

Seven years have passed since Paul Lewis's last solo Schubert recording, and this latest collection coincides with his continuing series of Schubert recitals. It groups together the three sonatas of ...

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 ...

Impromptus, Movements: No. 1 in F minor Inon Barnatan, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Impromptus, Movements: No. 2 in A flat Franz Schubert, Composer Inon Barnatan, Piano Impromptus, Movements: No. 3 ...