Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Portuguese pianist’s admirers will need no encouragement to sample this pairing of Schubert’s two greatest ...

Sonata for Piano No. 21 Franz Schubert, Composer Hideyo Harada, Piano But it’s in Schubert’s final sonata that the real problems occur. It’s a work that famously throws out the rulebook: tension, ...

Sonata for Piano No. 19 Alexander Lonquich, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 20 Franz Schubert, Composer Alexander Lonquich, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 21 Alexander Lonquich, Piano ...

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.

The Music: After his acclaimed Beethoven odyssey of the past few years, Lewis returns to the other love of his life - a composer who himself adored Beethoven - in a programme of late works mixing ...

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 ...

Alfred Brendel introduces Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D960 for piano.

Schubert Songs and Sonatas Ian Bostridge (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) (EMI Classics 557 9012) Following the success of their collaboration on Winterreise, British tenor Ian Bostridge and ...