The pairing of Schubert’s late Sonata in A Major, D 959, written in 1821, with four songs from 1821, 1823 and 1828 is unusual on disc but seems perfectly logical when one reads the liner notes, in ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music that Schubert composed in the last months of his life has acquired a quasi-mythical status. A picture ...
Franz Schubert, Piano Sonatas in A minor (D. 537) and A major (D. 959), performed by Andras Schiff (London 440 309-2); Schubert, Piano Sonata in A major (D. 959) and Klavierstucke Nos. 1-3 (D. 946), ...
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 ...
This season’s emphasis on Romantic composers, both recent and past, went all 19th-century this week in two recitals at Harris Hall. Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin and the Emerson Quartet both focused ...
The fruitful artistic partnership between Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien has already yielded Hyperion discs of Ravel (CDA67820) and Szymanowski (CDA67703). Here they turn their attention to ...
One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...
The B-Flat Piano Sonata D960, which Schubert completed two months before his death, in 1828, is a vast and complex work. It’s the last of a triptych of piano sonatas that Schubert wrote, possibly in ...
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 ...
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