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, ...

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), ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Winning a major piano competition remains a high-profile first step in a pianist’s career, but it is what ...

Volume 2 of Gerhard Oppitz’s cycle presents the A major Sonata, D959, one of Schubert’s towering masterpieces, and by way of contrast, the early E major Sonata, D157. Throughout both sonatas this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music that Schubert composed in the last months of his life has acquired a quasi-mythical status. A picture ...

Mr. Biss is a concert pianist. We live in an age of isolation. Its dangerous effects are becoming ever clearer: online radicalization, increasingly poisonous politics, evidence that more and more ...

Alfred Brendel introduces Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D960 for piano.