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 ...

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 ...

When Murray Perahia gave a concert this year in Portland, Oregon, he saved a couple of Impromptus until the official program was over. Here's Perahia, on stage, playing his first encore — Schubert's ...

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 ...

His music occupied four of the top five places in the Classic 100: Chamber Music survey, but that was only one field of music in which Franz Schubert excelled. Some call him the greatest songwriter of ...

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 ...

Franz Schubert (born January 31, 1797; died November 19, 1828) was not the first of the Romantics but he was, as one writer put it, 'the first lyric poet of music'. The ideas came tumbling out like ...

We have a mostly Schubert hour ahead, starting with two Impromptus, Op. 90, Nos. 2 and 4, played by Irish pianist John O'Connor in NPR's Studio 4A. O'Connor also says a few words about his earliest ...