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.
Maria João Pires is a pianist who seems incapable of producing an ugly sound or fashioning a phrase that is not perfectly moulded. Her playing is wonderfully selfless, and Schubert, like Mozart, often ...
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 ...
Most pianists who embark on a Schubert cycle tend to eke out the late masterpieces, pairing each of them on disc with earlier, slighter sonatas and miniatures. Paul Lewis clearly favours a bolder ...
San Francisco Performances brings pianist Richard Goode to Herbst Theatre for the first time since 2022.
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 ...