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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What would Schubert have done if he had heard Domenico Dragonetti play? It’s perhaps not one of the world’s great musical mysteries – Dragonetti was a great virtuoso double bassist, Schubert was fond ...

A capacity audience was treated to some extraordinary musicmaking at the Austrian Embassy on Friday night. Two quintets of Franz Schubert, some of the most exquisite chamber music ever written, made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two recent performances of Franz Schubert’s sublime String Quintet in C Major provided an opportunity to test a common presumption in the classical-music business: that older performers invariably ...

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, ...

Schubert spatters the music, virtually all his music, with filigree sounds, p to ppp, throwing in sudden changes of f to p from one note to another. Such details are always obeyed. Nothing is ...

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 ...