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Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D959; Moments Musicaux album review – grandeur and grace from Steven Osborne

His grasp of Schubert’s scale and ebullience means this is among the finest recordings of one of the composer’s final sonatas

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Renowned pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94

Over a six-decade career, Brendel became known for his interpretations of classical masters including Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.

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Alfred Brendel obituary

One of the greatest pianists of his generation who bestrode the musical world for six decades

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Majestic, rigorous and sheer fun: the best of Alfred Brendel’s recordings

As the musical world mourns the celebrated pianist, we assess his wide recording legacy and pick the 12 best, from Russian rarities to quickfire Beethoven

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Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou review – rewarding pairing brings intimacy and colour

A programme of solo and duo works ranged from Schubert to Beethoven, but Kurtág was the main focus, his duets beautifully shaped and vivid

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For Dieter: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau album review – a heartfelt tribute to a lieder legend

The great baritone’s final student emulates his late mentor’s attention to verbal and musical detail in a 32-song centenary homage featuring plenty of Schubert

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Winterreise by Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev at Wigmore Hall

5/5 Schubert’s song cycle is interpreted in powerful style by Joyce DiDonato, accompanied by Maxim Emelyanychev

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DiDonato/Emelyanychev review – ingenious artistry brings Schubert’s bleak Winterreise to life

Joyce DiDonato’s theatrical skills enabled her to feminise the cycle in a particularly original way, before Strauss’s Morgen! gave us all hope

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The Guardian view on 20th-century composers: play it again, maestro

Radio 3’s celebration of Pierre Boulez is a chance to revisit “difficult” music and break down divisions between old and new styles

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Mishka Rushdie Momen review – the poignancy and power of Schubert unleashed

The pianist captured the vast dynamic contrasts of Schubert’s sonatas; and her fine playing of William Byrd was a refreshing foil foil

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Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág album review – Benjamin Appl’s wonderful tribute to extraordinary composer

Works by Schubert and Brahms are interwoven with 13 of composer’s own songs in this beautifully realised collection

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Argerich/Maisky/Ivanov review – legendary pianist brings her irrepressible brilliance to chamber music programme

Martha Argerich joined with Mischa Maisky and Yossif Ivanov to perform music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schubert, but it was her solo Bach that was a special evening’s particular highlight

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Schubert, Ter Schiphorst, Andre album review – something old, something new

Alongside a rather brittle Death and the Maiden, contemporary composers Iris ter Schiphorst adds a recorder to a string quartet while Marc Andre’s miniatures study textures

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works and a bravura performance

The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms’s early sonata

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Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson review – an unforgettable night with two star pianists

From the breathtakingly intimate dynamics during Berio’s Wasserklavier to the astonishingly crisp articulation of Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor, this concert was a masterclass in clarity and poise

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Williams/Burch; Booth/Waley-Cohen review – persuasive Schubert and superb Kurtág

Roderick Williams was vivid and compelling in Schubert’s Schwanengesang, while Claire Booth rose to the challenges of Kafka Fragments

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Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’

The baritone on how he looks after his voice, why he likes to talk to his audience, and playlists for the dying

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Smetana & Schubert: Piano Trios album review – immensely promising debut

The Czech trio deliver two great works with freshness, energy and maximum intensity

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The week in classical: Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/ Barenboim; GBSR Duo – review

With minimal gestures yet complete control, a now frail Daniel Barenboim returned to the Proms in a concert of exceptional poignancy

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Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim review – an unforgettable and heroic return

Two years after he stepped back from performance, the conductor was back at the Proms – far frailer, but still able to conjure an instant response with a tiny flick of the baton

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The week in classical: Il segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci; Spring Snow; Giorgi Gigashvili – review

A double bill of jealous minds moves from visceral tragedy to the joyfully comic, while Schubert and kabuki find surprising parallels

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Kolesnikov/Tsoy: Franz Schubert/Leonid Desyatnikov review – a piano duo of rare intimacy

Acute listening and sonic experiments with the Schubert masterpieces add immediacy, setting this recording apart

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Winterreise review – agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life

Deborah Warner’s staged version of Winterreise is a powerful and deeply moving piece of theatre

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Schubert: String Quartets in G, D887 and B Flat, D112 album review – Takács take their time, this time

The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners

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Sherratt/Drake: Fear No More album review – drinkably deep bass at his peak

For the singer’s first recital recording he goes to Hades with Schubert, chills with Mussorgsky and closes warmly with English songs

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