Jane Jones choses a featured work that unites two of Schubert's extraordinary talents. Schubert's String Quartet No.14 in D minor brings together two of the composer's extraordinary talents. Schubert ...

Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major is linked to death in a way few pieces of music are. The early 19th century Austrian composer was prolific enough to have a large body of work yet died quite ...

Fitting Schubert's heavenly string ­quintet and the final two quartets, all substantial works, on to just two discs is quite a feat, but the price to be paid is that the G major quartet is awkwardly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victor Kissine’s original arrangement of Schubert’s G major String Quartet was, according to Gidon Kremer, ‘virtually unplayable’. But after a lengthy interchange of views, the final result was ...

The feverish unease that pervades these late Schubert works, with their ambiguous shifts from major to minor, tremolo triplets and searing outbursts, is perfectly captured by the excellent Doric ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String ...

Put yourself in the offices of the German wing of EMI records in 1985. A leading group, the Alban Berg Quartett – named after the famous modernist composer from their home country of Austria – has ...

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, ...