Elegance, beauty and irrepressible good humour: music from the pen of a 22 year-old prodigy — inspired by the tragi-comic death of a fish! Schubert’s "Trout" Quintet is one of the best loved of all ...
The Music: The piano duet drew from Schubert some of his most intimate and imaginative creations. The medium wonderfully suited his affection for music-making with friends and provided the chance for ...
His grasp of Schubert’s scale and ebullience means this is among the finest recordings of one of the composer’s final sonatas Steven Osborne’s third album of Schubert for Hyperion is the first to ...
Krystian Zimerman was 60 last December. As he reveals in an interview included with these performances, approaching that milestone convinced him it was time to “find the courage” to record the late ...
(4) Ländler Franz Schubert, Composer Christoph Eschenbach, Piano Justus Frantz, Piano Fantasie Christoph Eschenbach, Piano Justus Frantz, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Allegro, 'Lebensstürme' Franz ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Winning a major piano competition remains a high-profile first step in a pianist’s career, but it is what ...
Sonata for Piano No. 15, 'Relique' Daniel-Ben Pienaar, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 16 Daniel-Ben Pienaar, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 17 Daniel-Ben Pienaar, Piano ...
In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...