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 ...

Don't be lulled by Cordelia Williams's sweetly cool reading of the first two of Schubert's Impromptus D899 in this recording; there's romantic fire lurking under the surface. No 3 is almost Brahmsian ...

Lubimov, an unstarry Russian, is an exceptionally probing musician. He favours a pianoforte for the music of Beethoven and Schubert – on this disc he uses restored instruments dating from 1810 and ...

Aimi Kobayashi is not a pianist who leaves details to chance. Although she’s hardly a micromanager or fussbudget, her propensity for planning ahead walks a thin line between sensitivity and blandness ...

(5) Impromptus, Movements: No. 1 in E flat, Op. 25 (1881) Tomasz Lis, Piano Gabriel Fauré, Composer (5) Impromptus, Movements: No. 2 in F minor, Op. 31 (1883) Tomasz ...

A concert in Moscow by Russian pianist, Alexei Lubimov, and Russian soprano, Yana Ivanilova, was broken up by police last night. The performance, titled ‘Songs against the times’, featured works by ...

The music of Viennese composer Franz Schubert contains a wonderful paradox. It has a piercing sadness, which in some strange way is filled with joy. The joy, I think, comes from the sense that here, ...

Look out for Schubert's Impromptu No. 3, which contains a nod to one of the world's most famous pop songs... Just after he wrote Fly Me to the Moon, Schubert wrote his Impromptu No. 3. Absolute ...