Look out for Schubert's Impromptu No. 3, which contains a nod to one of the world's most famous pop songs... Just after he wrote Fly Me to the Moon, Schubert wrote his Impromptu No. 3. Absolute ...

In 1942, the Austrian pianist recorded a set of Schubert Impromptus that were never released. Those recordings, plus others from the session, are now available in a new CD set. This is FRESH AIR. You ...

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim performed a Schubert ‘Impromptu’ at the memorial service for Jacques Chirac. World leaders gathered alongside mourners in Paris to pay their respects to the ...

We have a mostly Schubert hour ahead, starting with two Impromptus, Op. 90, Nos. 2 and 4, played by Irish pianist John O'Connor in NPR's Studio 4A. O'Connor also says a few words about his earliest ...

Lubimov, an unstarry Russian, is an exceptionally probing musician. He favours a pianoforte for the music of Beethoven and Schubert – on this disc he uses restored instruments dating from 1810 and ...