When Murray Perahia gave a concert this year in Portland, Oregon, he saved a couple of Impromptus until the official program was over. Here's Perahia, on stage, playing his first encore — Schubert's ...
Sonata for Piano No. 20 Franz Schubert, Composer Barry Douglas, Piano Rhetoric is to the fore in the A major Sonata too, with Douglas enjoying the contrast between chordal and triplet-writing in the ...
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Just after he wrote ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, Schubert wrote his Impromptu No.3. Absolute nonsense, of course. Although if you listen to the chords of Schubert’s Impromptu No.2, you’ll hear that they ...
Tonal Problem, Carpenter Narrative, and Carpenter Motive in Schubert's Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 3 Tonal Problem, Carpenter Narrative, and Carpenter Motive in Schubert's Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 3 (pp.
The term "impromptu" suggests that a piece has a casual, offhand quality—perhaps that it's even being improvised on the spot. Sometimes, though, it's just a handy term for a short, stand-alone piece ...
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