The concert will feature pianist Michael Rickman with violinist Susan Pitard Acree, violist Zoriy Zinger and cellist Joseph ...
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.
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 ...
Maestro Michael Laus is exploring the relationship between the music of composers Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt with a piano recital at the Manoel Theatre on Saturday. The two composers had more than ...
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 ...
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.
Schubert’s wonderful pair of late piano trios are here coupled with the single-movement Notturno believed to be a rejected slow movement from the first one. They are both large-scale works, and the ...
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 ...
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 ...