Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Portuguese pianist’s admirers will need no encouragement to sample this pairing of Schubert’s two greatest ...

Sonata for Piano No. 7 Franz Schubert, Composer Alan Marks, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 19 Alan Marks, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 9 Alan Marks, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer ...

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.

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Schubert’s final piano sonatas are strange works, full of odd phrase lengths, unexpected modulations, bewildering detours and juxtapositions of seemingly incompatible ideas. But over the years, ...

The Music: After his acclaimed Beethoven odyssey of the past few years, Lewis returns to the other love of his life - a composer who himself adored Beethoven - in a programme of late works mixing ...

Some of Franz Schubert’s piano sonatas suffer from longueurs, but the final two — in A major (D. 959) and B-flat major (D. 960) — are perfect works of genius written shortly before his death. The ...

Maria João Pires is a pianist who seems incapable of producing an ugly sound or fashioning a phrase that is not perfectly moulded. Her playing is wonderfully selfless, and Schubert, like Mozart, often ...