DG Podcast meets Rudolf Buchbinder

Deutsche Grammophon Podcast host Sarah Willis talks to the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, who is about to release his new album “Soirée de Vienne” with music from Strauss, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin.

Unfortunately such “Soirées” (Buchbinder calls them “Hausmusik”) are a thing of the past. Composers used to play and even improvise, creating a special atmosphere. In their conversation Willis and Buchbinder talk about the old “Soirée”-format and whom the pianist would invite to his own Viennese Soirée. They expand to the wider Viennese coffee culture, why Buchbinder chose these composers for his new album and his experience recording them in the studio.