The pianist binds Schubert’s D850 with Schumann’s Kinderszenen with playing of warmth and crystalline technique ...
The Czech trio deliver two great works with freshness, energy and maximum intensity This is the Trio Bohémo’s first CD, and it’s an immensely promising debut. Schubert’s great E flat Piano Trio D929 ...
(18) Lieder (Schubert), Movements: Sei mir gegrüsst Leon McCawley, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer (18) Lieder (Schubert), Movements: Die junge Nonne Franz Liszt, Composer (18) Lieder (Schubert), ...
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 ...
Humphrey Burton’s weekend of music by Schubert ended with a piano recital by Christian Blackshaw that included his last and greatest sonata for that instrument. The evening began with the six Moments ...
Astride this weekend, London’s Wigmore Hall staged the third, penultimate, programme of the series: two concerts of the same three sonatas, including that which Robert Schumann described as “the most ...
When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.
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 ...
Here at the Salzburg Festival, there are regular, recurring pianists: Maurizio Pollini, Grigory Sokolov, Arcadi Volodos, others. Last night, it was the turn of Volodos, who played a recital in the ...