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 ...

THE Czech group, the Wihan Quartet, having moved from their complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle on to the string quartets of Dvorak, now turn their attention to Schubert with a fascinating disc of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Schubert’s three late string quartets pose a dilemma for their interpreters. Should the music sound essentially warm ...

String Quartet No. 14, 'Death and the Maiden' Franz Schubert, Composer Cremona Quartet String Quintet Eckart Runge, Cello Franz Schubert, Composer Cremona Quartet It’s the same coupling with which the ...

For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so clearly how he felt’. I’d question whether Schubert knew that his days ...

Schubert’s compositions became more expansive towards the end of his short life, and it was Schumann who famously praised the “heavenly length” of the composer’s final symphony. His final string ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

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 ...

Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis, Dr. Anne Hyland, announces the publication of her monograph: Schubert’s String Quartets: the Teleology of Lyric Form which appeared with Cambridge University Press ...

Rarely do string quartets perform works of the Classical period and beyond on pure gut strings. These are made with fibres extracted from either sheep or cow intestines and one associates them with ...

This is Schubert played with heart-stopping freshness, the composer as romantic rather than classicist. You realise that this is actually a young man's music: Schubert, though near death, was barely ...