Aimi Kobayashi is not a pianist who leaves details to chance. Although she’s hardly a micromanager or fussbudget, her propensity for planning ahead walks a thin line between sensitivity and blandness ...

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 ...

Soirées de Vienne: 9 Valses caprices d'après Schubert, Movements: No. 6 in A minor (first edition) Vladimir Horowitz, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer Schwanengesang (Schubert), Movements: No. 7, Ständchen ...

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 ...