Impromptu D899 No 4 (a.k.a. Op 90 No 4, in A flat minor) by Franz Schubert

I'll let Paul Cantrell describe Impromptu D899 No 4 (a.k.a. Op 90 No 4, in A flat minor): "This is a very familiar piece (to piano aficionados, anyway) — but you’ll find Don’s performance a little refreshingly unfamiliar. It’s not a wild departure from custom, but there’s just a subtle tip in the balance in his performance that makes the feeling of the piece quite different. In the last entry I mentioned the question of foreground and background. When most pianists play this piece, they put the right hand squarely in the foreground: what you hear is a series of speedy cascades down, a fun bit of finger gymnastics. But when Don plays it, he balances foreground between the left and the right, and what emerges is the slower underlying chord progression. Instead of a nervously flitting thing, it becomes a smoothly unfolding one. That reading brings us to what is to me the essential nature of Schubert: a tiny thing with a vast interior, a world opening from a single moment."

https://innig.net/music/recordings/ith_don_schubert-899-4.mp3

Piano Piece D946 No 1 (in E flat minor) by Don Betts

Paul Cantrell describes Piano Piece D946 No 1 (in E flat minor) best: "Schubert’s music is a rarified world, full of repeating simple patterns built from the same few simple ingredients, where subtle changes create tremendous moments — just a shift from minor to major, and a whole new world opens up. In Don’s performance, you can feel the weight of each of those little moments, the overwhelmingly vast interior of this tiny little world, like one of Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings."

http://innig.net/music/recordings/ith_don_schubert-946-1.mp3