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.

Pianist Arcadi Volodos will release a new Sony Classical album featuring Schubert and Schumann. The recording includes ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Goerne’s Schubert edition is building an impressive head of steam: his choice of a variety of top-rank pianists seems ...

Krystian Zimerman was 60 last December. As he reveals in an interview included with these performances, approaching that milestone convinced him it was time to “find the courage” to record the late ...

(34) Valses sentimentales, Movements: A Shani Diluka, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer (16) Deutsche Tänze and 2 Ecossaises, Movements: D Shani Diluka, Piano Franz Schubert, Composer (12) Waltzes, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After admired albums devoted to Chopin, Liszt and Mozart, the Polish-Canadian pianist turns to two of Schubert’s more ...

Beethoven’s complete sonatas are often considered the supreme test for pianists – but the Schubert cycle may be more challenging still. Even with merely competent playing, Beethoven’s all make their ...

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 ...

Franz Schubert, Piano Sonatas in A minor (D. 537) and A major (D. 959), performed by Andras Schiff (London 440 309-2); Schubert, Piano Sonata in A major (D. 959) and Klavierstucke Nos. 1-3 (D. 946), ...

Imogen Cooper's close affinity with Schubert's music has been borne out in a series of recitals that she has been giving over the past months at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. They were recorded for ...

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.