Alfred Brendel introduces Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D960 for piano.

Alfred Brendel studied piano, composition and conducting in Zagreb and Graz and completed his piano studies with Edwin Fischer, Paul Baumgartner and Edward Steuermann. Between 1958 and 1964 he was the ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

In matters of musical diction, lucidity matters. Not long before the sonata’s end, Beethoven introduces a three-part fugato, a lyric inspiration of rare beauty, limpid in D. In the context of this ...