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After Brendel, who’s the next Schubert pianist?

After Brendel, who’s the next Schubert pianist?

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

So commanding was Alfred Brendel in Schubert’s piano music that other pianists complain they can’t get him out of their fingers. It’s two decades or more since Brendel last recorded late Schubert, and half a century since he made those epochal recordings in Philips, yet his shadow stretches long and no clear contender has since emerged as the Schubert pianist of our time….

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