Alfred Brendel, one of the world's most famous and revered pianists, recently retired from the concert stage. With a career that spanned almost 60 years, Brendel has played a large portion of the piano solo, chamber and concerto repertoire in the world's great musical capitals. Now, Decca is proud to re-release, at an exceptional budget price, the SCHUBERT: PIANO WORKS seven CD set. The SCHUBERT set is a re-issue of Brendel's digital recordings of the composer's major piano works recorded 1987-88.