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Mishka Rushdie Momen review – the poignancy and power of Schubert unleashed

The pianist captured the vast dynamic contrasts of Schubert’s sonatas; and her fine playing of William Byrd was a refreshing foil foil

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Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág album review – Benjamin Appl’s wonderful tribute to extraordinary composer

Works by Schubert and Brahms are interwoven with 13 of composer’s own songs in this beautifully realised collection

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Argerich/Maisky/Ivanov review – legendary pianist brings her irrepressible brilliance to chamber music programme

Martha Argerich joined with Mischa Maisky and Yossif Ivanov to perform music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schubert, but it was her solo Bach that was a special evening’s particular highlight

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Schubert, Ter Schiphorst, Andre album review – something old, something new

Alongside a rather brittle Death and the Maiden, contemporary composers Iris ter Schiphorst adds a recorder to a string quartet while Marc Andre’s miniatures study textures

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works and a bravura performance

The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms’s early sonata

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Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson review – an unforgettable night with two star pianists

From the breathtakingly intimate dynamics during Berio’s Wasserklavier to the astonishingly crisp articulation of Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor, this concert was a masterclass in clarity and poise

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Williams/Burch; Booth/Waley-Cohen review – persuasive Schubert and superb Kurtág

Roderick Williams was vivid and compelling in Schubert’s Schwanengesang, while Claire Booth rose to the challenges of Kafka Fragments

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Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’

The baritone on how he looks after his voice, why he likes to talk to his audience, and playlists for the dying

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Smetana & Schubert: Piano Trios album review – immensely promising debut

The Czech trio deliver two great works with freshness, energy and maximum intensity

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The week in classical: Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/ Barenboim; GBSR Duo – review

With minimal gestures yet complete control, a now frail Daniel Barenboim returned to the Proms in a concert of exceptional poignancy

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Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim review – an unforgettable and heroic return

Two years after he stepped back from performance, the conductor was back at the Proms – far frailer, but still able to conjure an instant response with a tiny flick of the baton

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The week in classical: Il segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci; Spring Snow; Giorgi Gigashvili – review

A double bill of jealous minds moves from visceral tragedy to the joyfully comic, while Schubert and kabuki find surprising parallels

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Kolesnikov/Tsoy: Franz Schubert/Leonid Desyatnikov review – a piano duo of rare intimacy

Acute listening and sonic experiments with the Schubert masterpieces add immediacy, setting this recording apart

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Winterreise review – agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life

Deborah Warner’s staged version of Winterreise is a powerful and deeply moving piece of theatre

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Schubert: String Quartets in G, D887 and B Flat, D112 album review – Takács take their time, this time

The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners

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Sherratt/Drake: Fear No More album review – drinkably deep bass at his peak

For the singer’s first recital recording he goes to Hades with Schubert, chills with Mussorgsky and closes warmly with English songs

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DTM Oschersleben: Aitken capitalises on Wittmann dramas to win season-opener

BMW driver Wittmann was on course to take an unlikely victory from the last row of the grid after timing his pitstop to perfection, with Schubert Motorsport having brought him in for his mandatory stop just before a Full Course Yellow was deployed.

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DTM Oschersleben: Aitken wins season-opener, heartbreak for Wittmann

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Colourising Klimt's vanished paintings: Can AI 'predict' the continuation of an artwork?

In this Science segment, we look at how AI is attempting to complete unfinished or lost works by great artists like Klimt but also Beethoven, Schubert and Rembrandt. Scientists use all the information they can to train algorithms called "neural networks" to imitate the style of the artist or musician…

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Leeds Lieder festival Opening Gala review – a good old-fashioned Schubertiade

The song festival – with Arts Council funding reinstated – opened with a meaty all-Schubert programme full of delights and camaraderie

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Rast fastest as BMW dominates Hockenheim DTM test

Three-time DTM champion Rast set a best time of 1m37.077s on the second and final day of the running at Hockenheim to top the timesheets ahead of Schubert Motorsport team-mates Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann.

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Mandatory stops, top 10 rule and driving time - all changes to DTM rules in 2024

While a restriction on testing is the most notable addition to the 2024 rulebook, the ADAC has also tweaked the regulations elsewhere for what would be the second season of the DTM under its stewardship.

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Kate’s sad news should give the press pause for thought

Brief letters: Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis | Proper ice-cream | Schubert for surgery | Spending 50 pennies | The Reflux party

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Paul Lewis review – Schubert’s last works given a masterful treatment

Pianist is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of sonatas completed months before composer’s death

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Experience: I play piano for rescued elephants

One would walk off if I played Schubert, but stay for hours for Beethoven

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