Biss/Padmore review – elegance and intensity in compelling Schubert

Milton Court, London
Jonathan Biss and Mark Padmore brought coherence and poignancy to Schubert’s late worksExpressionism in music, you could argue, begins with the works that Schubert composed in the last year of his life, with their groundbreaking explorations of beauty, fear, grace and extreme emotion. For the final concert of his Late Style series, examining works written in the face of mortality, pianist Jonathan Biss juxtaposed the A Major Sonata D959 with Schwanengesang, for which h