Dreamer, poet, radical, and visionary, Franz Schubert was a composer who stood between worlds. In his short life, he wrote music as epic as Beethoven and as perfect as Mozart; music that could bubble with life and joy and yet probe the darkest depths of the human soul – or distil both experiences into pure, haunting beauty. Schubert’s music defined […]

Transcriptions and paraphrases played an important part in shaping Liszt’s role as leading musical figure of his generation. The first pianist to play the entire range of the keyboard repertory from Bach to Chopin, his historical curiosity and ambitions did not stop there. He transcribed both famous and less well known vocal and orchestral works of others in order to […]

Pianist Imogen Cooper continues her critically acclaimed Schubert Live series with the third 2-CD release of the composer’s late piano music, recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.The highly respected and acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper is enjoying something of a renaissance with her ongoing series of Schubert’s solo piano works on Avie. International accolades for the recordings abound, from NPR […]

Filmed during a Professional Training Workshop in New York, Franz Schubert‘s late piano sonatas come to life in this performance guide that includes video clips, written commentary, and an animated score, allowing the user to simultaneously watch Mr. Fleisher teach from the keyboard and study the notated music. Select any combination of 24 separate video clips from six categories to […]

The Moments Musicaux were published only a few months before Schubert’s death in 1828. Most of them were composed during 1827 or 1828, with the exception of Nos. 3 and 6, dating from 1823 and 1824 respectively. Recordings of the Six Moments Musicaux performed by David Wärn have now been published by Piano Street. We are happy to share with […]

Alfred Brendel is an outstanding modern exponent of Schubert’s piano music. He is capable of bringing not only the verve of this music but also its poetic intensity and intellectual depth to life with a special vibrancy. In this unique collection – a 5 DVD box (on Naxos) at a very attractive price – he plays all of Schubert’s major […]

In a live recording from the Amerikahaus, Munich, Friedrich Gulda reveals the versatility of his keyboard playing. On the clavichord he plays three preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (in A minor BWV 889, in C major BWV 846, in A flat major BWV 886) on the piano; his own re-working of Schubert’s song Der Wanderer, ending with Debussy’s […]

Wanderer Fantasy Considered being his most technically demanding piano composition Schubert himself said “the devil may play it” about his Wanderer Fantasy, opus 15. It was composed in 1822 and dedicated to Emanuel Karl Edler von Liebenberg, who was a student of Hummel. Schubert’s Diabelli Variation Schubert wrote one variation on the well known Waltz by Diabelli, which Beethoven based […]

———————————————————————- EDIT 13 January 2008: The audio files are no longer available for free but will soon be added to the Gold membership resources. ———————————————————————- We would like to wish you Happy Holidays with some of our new recordings for you to enjoy! The seven new recordings below are freely available until 12 January 2009. All tracks recorded on Steinway […]

Opus 142 (D 935) by Franz Schubert are now available in PS Urtext edition. This collection of four Impromptus starts and concludes with pieces in the same key (F-minor) which is one of the reasons for the speculations by Robert Schumann that parts of this opus was originally intended as a sonata (although refuted by some contemporary musicologists) but was […]

The impromptus opus 90 and Moments Musicaux opus 94 by Franz Schubert are now available in PS Urtext editions. Schubert: Impromptu, Opus 90 No 1 A march-like melody written in C minor although the tonal ambiguity at the start of the piece highlights the romantic composer’s need for abstract imagery through music. This is the longest impromptu in this set. […]