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.

Some of Franz Schubert’s piano sonatas suffer from longueurs, but the final two — in A major (D. 959) and B-flat major (D. 960) — are perfect works of genius written shortly before his death. The ...

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), ...

Then there’s that piano. The news broke in the UK only the day before that Barenboim had collaborated with the Belgian piano maker Chris Maene to create a special instrument closer in sound and spirit ...

Camerata Pacifica ushers in the New Year with four achingly beautiful chamber works for piano and viola by Beethoven, ...

4 Extra Debut. Personal stories of Schubert’s B-Flat Piano Sonata written weeks before his death. With pianist Imogen Cooper. From 2019. Show more The B-Flat Piano Sonata D960, which Schubert ...

It’s not easy to produce a CD without the aid of a record company, but under her new label Modern Poetics, soprano Marci Meth has single-handedly pulled together a talented team to realise an ...