Just after he wrote ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, Schubert wrote his Impromptu No.3. Absolute nonsense, of course. Although if you listen to the chords of Schubert’s Impromptu No.2, you’ll hear that they ...
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 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 ...
Some years ago András Schiff made some recordings on Mozart’s own piano in Salzburg, but he has until now been firmly of the view that he preferred modern pianos to period instruments. So this ...
Impromptus, Movements: No. 1 in C minor Franz Schubert, Composer Nadja Rubanenko, Piano Impromptus, Movements: No. 2 in E flat Franz Schubert, Composer Nadja Rubanenko, Piano Impromptus, Movements: No ...
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 ...
A concert in Moscow by Russian pianist, Alexei Lubimov, and Russian soprano, Yana Ivanilova, was broken up by police last night. The performance, titled ‘Songs against the times’, featured works by ...
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 ...
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