Im Portrait: Schuberts Kleinode 2025

Kristian Bezuidenhout is one of the most important interpreters of various keyboard instruments, especially fortepianos. His recordings of works from the Classical and Romantic periods, including Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert, are highly acclaimed and have also been featured on musik+. After a long time, he returns to musik+ as a guest and dedicates himself to Franz Schubert as a master of the miniature. In addition to the great sonatas, Schubert wrote countless ländler, waltzes, minuets, fantasies and other individual movements. The musical clarity in this brevity is unbelievable, not a note too much, not a note too little. On this evening, Kristian Bezuidenhout will present some of these gems - from the beginnings, the earliest surviving piano piece by the 14-year-old, to an Allegretto movement composed just a few months before his death. The centrepiece of the evening will be the E flat major Sonata D 568 played on the historic Graf grand piano.