Pianist André-Michel Schub has been described by the New York Times as “pianistically flawless…a formidable pianist with a fierce integrity.” He has repeatedly performed with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, among them the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the Detroit Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Bournemouth Symphony. Since 1997 he has been music director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music series, planning its chamber music programming and performing on a number of programs each year. He is currently an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. On this release, he performs two of Beethoven’s most famous piano works, the Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ‘Appassionata,’ and the Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major.