This is FRESH AIR. You can count our music critic Lloyd Schwartz among the many music lovers who consider Artur Schnabel the most insightful classical pianist who ever recorded. Schnabel, who died in ...

“Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.” Artur Schnabel was one the most influential pianists of the early 20th century. He’s best remembered ...

Artur Schnabel (1882 –1951) is universally recognized as the one of the finest 20th century musicians, expressing uncommon emotional depth and spirituality as a pianist. (One teacher famously told him ...

Artur Schnabel, one of the game-changing pianists of the 20th century and one of the first piano stars of the phonograph, is being celebrated today by the Library of Congress. His recordings of ...

This is FRESH AIR. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz loves old records - really old records, even before the age of vinyl. Many of those historic recordings have been transferred to CD, but not ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the documentary flick. Artur Schnabel No Place of Exile starring Walter Arlen, Jeanne Bamberger, Rodolfo Augusto Faistauer, Leon Fleisher has a Not Rated ...

Without a glance at the audience, the stocky little pianist padded straight to the concert grand in the center of the stage. He sat down, arranged his tails, struck a softly impatient chord. When the ...

In 1942, the Austrian pianist recorded a set of Schubert Impromptus that were never released. Those recordings, plus others from the session, are now available in a new CD set. This is FRESH AIR. You ...