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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 ...

Andras Schiff plays the third movement from the Piano Sonata, D. 557, by Franz Schubert.

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.

Schubert’s wonderful pair of late piano trios are here coupled with the single-movement Notturno believed to be a rejected slow movement from the first one. They are both large-scale works, and the ...

Franz Schubert wrote three of his four works for piano trio in the penultimate year of his life, and the other when he was a mere 15 years old. Why there was such a gap remains a mystery, but there is ...

Franz Schubert is largely credited with inventing the classical song cycle, and his 1828 “Winterreise” — or “Winter Journey” — the forlorn reflections of a young man who has lost his love to another, ...

Lucky the performers (and the listeners) who have Schubert’s two late piano trios before them. It is hard to go wrong with this uplifting music. The selling point of this latest disc is that the trio ...