None of Franz Schubert’s works–except for “Winterreise”–brings us closer to the Viennese composer’s tortured soul than his personal, emotionally charged final piano sonatas. Valery Afanassiev’s heavy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

But it’s not quite right for this music. Barenboim always trades in big passions; Schubert does not – or only in late works, and even then not exclusively. To negotiate the more delicate music of the ...

Marking 60 years as a recording artist, a master creates a near definitive set of Schubert's sonatas. Daniel Barenboim is marking 60 years as a recording artist this year and to celebrate, Deutsche ...

It’s not easy to produce a CD without the aid of a record company, but under her new label Modern Poetics, soprano Marci Meth has single-handedly pulled together a talented team to realise an ...

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 ...

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), ...

It was Schumann who famously wrote of the “heavenly length” of Schubert’s final Symphony in C. And the great Austrian pianist and Schubert advocate, Artur Schnabel, is said on a good night to have ...

SANTA BARBARA — When the American composer Elliott Carter reached the seemingly ripe old age of 80, I interviewed him about his late style. He wasn’t much interested in either looking back or keeping ...