The gentle, conversational way in which Maria João Pires launches the A minor Sonata D845 immediately identifies a pianist with a deep understanding of Schubert’s music and its spectrum of expression.

Maria João Pires is a pianist who seems incapable of producing an ugly sound or fashioning a phrase that is not perfectly moulded. Her playing is wonderfully selfless, and Schubert, like Mozart, often ...

The piano duet is an intimate, personal format, best suited to lamp-lit living rooms – which is exactly why Schubert, so often the loneliest of composers, responded so exquisitely to the medium. Yet ...

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 ...