It is not only their length which fellow composer Schumann referred to as “heavenly” – Schubert’s compositions also seem to speak to us as if from another world. Acclaimed as one of the most profound and most creative pianists of his generation, Filippo Faes has chosen highly contrasting works by the Viennese master. There are the stops and starts and eruptions, even desperation and otherworldliness, of his later works (the C minor Sonata) – only late because of Schubert’s untimely death – but also the Viennese charm and impertinence of youth in his B major Sonata. The interpretations by Faes explore every possibility of the piano with steady poise and tremendous élan. A window opens up on other worlds…