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 ...

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 ...

Ticket seller: Here are your tickets, enjoy the show. Usher: Your tickets, please. Follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall, a subway, a taxi, a walk ...

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 ...

Some of Franz Schubert’s piano sonatas suffer from longueurs, but the final two — in A major (D. 959) and B-flat major (D. 960) — are perfect works of genius written shortly before his death. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Daniel Barenboim made his name as a piano prodigy, but his gifts at the keyboard were long ago eclipsed by his ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...