Death of Classical's crypt sessions continued with a lovely performance by the Parker Quartet, joined by accomplished cellist ...

Not everything a great composer writes is always great music. Everyone has a hit rate and these vary from genius to genius. Even by Schubert’s own standards, though, the Adagio from the String Quintet ...

Coming in at No 3 behind Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s C major String Quintet of 1828 has long been a favourite on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, ...

Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

The Aiken Symphony will showcase the great talents of eight of its musicians from the strings, winds and brass sections in an ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Composer, writer, and producer Misha Donat presents an illustrated talk about the ...

The Endellion String Quartet concluded its current season at West Road Concert Hall on Wednesday evening with chamber works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. Each of the works performed represented its ...

Famous last words abound, but composers communicate with the world through their music, so sometimes their last statements are transmitted as sound. Franz Schubert died young, and the work of his last ...

In this bittersweet music, Schubert added an extra cello to the standard string quartet, and in the process created a completely new sound for a... Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet In C ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

The early difficulties of Schubert’s late String Quintet (it was rejected by his publisher, not performed in public until23 years after his death, nor published for a further three years) seem ...