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 Shai Wosner tackles a pair of Franz Schubert's last sonatas in the final concert of Gretna Music's 'Monsters of the Steinway' series Saturday night. More monumental than monstrous, the ...

The Music: After his acclaimed Beethoven odyssey of the past few years, Lewis returns to the other love of his life - a composer who himself adored Beethoven - in a programme of late works mixing ...

The first CD puts down an opening marker with the anti-virtuosic ruminations of Schubert’s Litanei and Liszt’s La lugubre gondola – the latter a wonderful piece, played with sad and searching ...

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 ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

Let’s just say of the Sunday-afternoon third in his series that it always fascinated even when it felt odd or wrong, and that Barenboim put Schubert’s infinite variety to the test with an unusual ...

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.