Month: September 2012

  • PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS

    PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS

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      Paul Lewis performs the Late Schubert Sonatas The year of Schubert’s death, 1828, saw the birth of an extraordinary number of masterpieces from the pen of this master lyricist: the “Great” C major Symphony, the Mass in E-flat, the String Quintet in C, thirteen of his finest songs, and the final trilogy of great…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ANDRAS SCHIFF PERFORMS BACH

    PROGRAM NOTES: ANDRAS SCHIFF PERFORMS BACH

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    J. S. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier One of the monumental landmarks in the history of music, Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier (the WTC for short) has come to represent the “Old Testament” of the pianist’s repertory (Hans von Bülow) and his “daily bread” (Robert Schumann).   “For more than 250 years,” states Davitt Moroney, “Das wohltemperierte Clavier has…