Schubert: Works for Piano

Featuring

Carlo Grante
Franz Schubert

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Performer Biography

Fabio Luisi, the New York Met's Principal Conductor, described Carlo Grante as 'one of the most astonishing artists I have ever known and worked with.'

Instruments

This recording uses a 1923 Bösendorfer Imperial piano, which is the prized possession of Eva and Paul Badura-Skoda and has all its original parts intact.

Performer Biography

Carlo Grante, one of Italy's foremost concert pianists, has performed in major venues worldwide, including the Vienna Musikverein and London's Wigmore Hall.

Composition History

Schubert's 3 Klavierstücke D 948, composed in his last year, were not published until forty years later when Brahms assembled and edited them.

Composer Biography

Franz Schubert, despite dying before his 32nd birthday, was an extremely prolific composer, creating over 600 art songs.

Performer Biography

Carlo Grante gave the first live performance of all 53 of Godowsky's Studies on the Études of Chopin at the Newport Festival.

Compositional Technique

Schubert often used a musical device of shifting keys a minor or major third apart to evoke a shift from dream to reality, as noted by Susan Wollenberg.