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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following his acclaimed solo debut album of the Late Sonatas of Beethoven, pianist Gerardo Teissonnière brings his “crystalline sound, formidable technique, and exquisite musical taste” (Cleveland ...

In 1942, the Austrian pianist recorded a set of Schubert Impromptus that were never released. Those recordings, plus others from the session, are now available in a new CD set. This is FRESH AIR. You ...

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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 ...