“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!

Schubert: Lacrimosa son io D.131b From Rhinemaidens (2016) Released by Harmonia Mundi Schubert: Lacrimosa son io D.131b The Rhine hymned by women’s voices. A major source of inspiration for writers and painters (Hugo, Nerval, Heine, Eichendorff, Turner) and above all

I’ve been playing and listening to Schubert’s Opus 90 Impromptus since I was about 14, when my mother fell in love with Alfred Brendel playing the fourth of the set, in A flat, and insisted that I learn it. So,

“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!

Johannes Brahms considered the poet Johann Mayrhofer “the most serious of all Schubert’s friends.” This complicated man, full of self-hatred and driven by emotions whose violence he could not accept, transferred the conflict-ridden passions of his inner world into powerful

During the first decades of the 19th Century, the city of Vienna was a thrilling and highly competitive musical melting pot. Conductors, performers and composers from all parts of Europe had flocked to the city to take advantage of the

XI. Frühlingstraum From Schubert: Wintereisse / Matthias Goerne’s Schubert Edition 9 (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Schubert: Wintereisse – XI. FrühlingstraumThis Winterreise ends Matthias Goerne’s series of Schubert lieder recordings. Here everything is tenser, more urgent, more harrowing. At once

Piano sonata in A Major, D. 959 III. Scherzo Allegro vivace – Trio Un pocco più lento From Schubert: Piano Sonatas v. 3 (2014) Released by Harmonia Mundi Schubert: Piano sonata in A Major, D. 959 – III. Scherzo Allegro