Oeuvre: Seize Allemandes et deux Écossaises, D.783

Few venues do “faded grandeur” better than the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. The auditorium of Belgium’s premier music college is a venerable grande dame of a concert hall – all off-white paint peeling from cracked walls and heavy red velvet curtains coated with dust – making it an elegant and alluring place in which to while away an evening, its imperfections lending a certain sepia-tinged spa

Concerts which are dedicated to one composer are becoming all the more frequent, and it is fantastic to hear a pianist as renowned as Paul Lewis devoting an entire tour to the works of Franz Schubert. It is fair to say that Lewis gave the audience at St George’s his all.