Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms
The works that have kept Luis company for years, set down at last. Schubert and Brahms at their most intimate, Beethoven’s late Bagatelles and Mozart’s fantasias, played as a single, personal arc.
From the 2025 album
Luis performs as soloist and chamber musician across four continents, and records for Catalyst.Music, the artist-led label he co-founded. A Yamaha International Artist, he is also Professor of Piano at Forum Musikae in Madrid.
Read the full biography“In the Sonata D.960, Magalhães makes the silences as expressive as the notes.”
DaCapo.pt · on the 2025 solo album
Upcoming
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Schiermonnikoog Festival
Concert with I Musicanti
Selected discography
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