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 ...
Sonata for Piano No. 20 Franz Schubert, Composer Barry Douglas, Piano Rhetoric is to the fore in the A major Sonata too, with Douglas enjoying the contrast between chordal and triplet-writing in the ...
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 ...