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Plays Schubert

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The modern world begins with Schubert, who found the pauses that later gave Debussy the courage to thin out the music once and for all and let the Twentieth Century begin. This is some of the most savagely gentle music ever written, and Lupu has that same infinite softness Paul Jacobs had. The musicality on display here is on par with Miles Davis and Maria Callas and Beyoncé. Pure ideation and execution, heart-stoppingly beautiful. What you should see when you google “music.”

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