Work: Impromptu no. 3 in G flat major, D.899

Jakub Hrůša conducts a magnificent Shostakovich 11 and, just after the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a work by one of the many Jewish musicians who perished there.

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Heras-Casado launches Klosters Music in style

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Mark Pullinger, 30 Jul

The fourth edition of the festival marks the 800th anniversary of the founding of Klosters with a musical journey back in time.

****1

Soporific Schubert, but peak Liszt from Khatia Buniatishvili

Mark Pullinger, 01 Apr

It ever there was a "recital of two halves", then this was it, with a leaden Sonata in B flat major countered by blazing Liszt at the Barbican.

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Bachtrack top ten: Franz Schubert

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Mark Pullinger, 31 Jan

Many of Schubert's “late” masterpieces – he died aged only 31 – are included in our editor’s selection of his top ten works.