"The way into Schubert’s world is full of twists and turns... A lengthy progress towards what I’ve always thought to be the ultimate expression of the lightness of being ... For me, playing Schubert is the culmination of a voyage of self-discovery ... You’re plunged into the same self-doubt, experience the same joy he did. I can find my self in this intimate exchange.

Each one of his eight Impromptus is, in its own way, a microcosm of the Schubertian world, an echo of the Vienna that was so dear to him. For me, they are an inner-journey that consumes every waking hour, strips my soul bare and fuses all those hopes and uncertainties into one. I lose myself in them and can see myself more clearly as a result.

To me, that’s the very essence of the impromptus: an act of abandonment that calls life itself into question and gives proof to the brilliance of Schubert’s genius in all its intricate and astonishing complexity." François Chaplin

Liszt: Litanei - Andante Religioso (No. 1 from Vier Geistliche Lieder, S562, after Schubert)
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D899
Schubert: Impromptu in A flat major, D899 No. 4th
Schubert: Impromptu in C minor, D899 No. 1
Schubert: Impromptu in E flat major, D899 No. 2nd
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3rd
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D935
Schubert: Impromptu in A flat major, D935 No. 2nd
Schubert: Impromptu in B flat major, D935 No. 3rd
Schubert: Impromptu in F Minor, D935 No. 1
Schubert: Impromptu in F minor, D935, No. 4th