Just as top chefs layer flavours to make their dishes shine, pianists who take on Franz Schubert’s sonatas need to bring out the complex layering of his musical ideas. Paul Lewis knows exactly how to ...

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 ...

Then there’s that piano. The news broke in the UK only the day before that Barenboim had collaborated with the Belgian piano maker Chris Maene to create a special instrument closer in sound and spirit ...

Elisabeth Leonskaja first played in public at the age of eleven and was a protégé of the Russian pianist Svjatoslav Richter. Elisabeth Leonskaja first played in public at the age of eleven and was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solo recordings by Krystian Zimerman come round so rarely that each one is an event. Now aged 60, Zimerman says he felt it was time to approach some of the late, great works of composers like ...

Adored yet ignored; musical conservative yet trailblazing visionary; fully paid-up Classicist yet out-and-out Romantic; emotionally complex yet expressively simple –­ never have so many contradictions ...