Herbert Schuch’s concert programmes are always characterised by a love for dramaturgical detail, with a dash of daring and joy in experimenting. The listeners benefit from a new outlook on well-known works of music and encounter with pieces seldom performed whose coherence is astonishing.

In Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la nuit”, a measure of the virtuoso skills of any pianist, he shows every nuance of his dexterity, but especially his talent for “telling” the music and taking the audience with him into a musical cosmos. In addition to this, his personal understanding of Schumann adds an inner logic to the music that one is rarely allowed to hear.