Lubimov, an unstarry Russian, is an exceptionally probing musician. He favours a pianoforte for the music of Beethoven and Schubert – on this disc he uses restored instruments dating from 1810 and ...

The term "impromptu" suggests that a piece has a casual, offhand quality—perhaps that it's even being improvised on the spot. Sometimes, though, it's just a handy term for a short, stand-alone piece ...

A 19th-century Viennese fortepiano shows off its special tonal qualities in this magnificent detailed and expressive double disc set In 2010, András Schiff acquired a fortepiano made in Vienna in ...

Tim Parry talks to Aimi Kobayashi about late Schubert and the pressure of expectations Perhaps in response to the work of Edward Said, it has become fashionable to think of an artist’s final works as ...

The booklet essay is entitled “Confessions of a Convert”. András Schiff tells how, after initial scepticism, he was won over to playing Schubert on a period fortepiano. He now owns an 1820 instrument ...

The debut CD from a former Young Musician of the Year Piano category winner. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 15 July 2013. In 2006, at the age of 17, Cordelia Williams was the Piano Winner of Young ...

In this recording of the eight Impromptus, some of Schubert’s most profound music, Lu cements his place as a serious talent Eric Lu was a worthy if controversial winner of the Chopin international ...

Cal Performances devoted last weekend in Berkeley to Schubert. Sunday afternoon the great pianist Richard Goode played the last three sonatas in Zellerbach Hall, while Friday and Saturday nights that ...

Look out for Schubert's Impromptu No. 3, which contains a nod to one of the world's most famous pop songs... Just after he wrote Fly Me to the Moon, Schubert wrote his Impromptu No. 3. Absolute ...

Impromptus, Movements: No. 1 in F minor Vassily Primakov, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Impromptus, Movements: No. 1 in C minor Franz Schubert, Composer Vassily Primakov, Piano Impromptus, Movements: ...