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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a family affair, this: two generations of the Flemish Kuijken dynasty (brothers Sigiswald and Wieland, plus Sigiswald’s daughters Sara and Veronica), who share a proclivity for period techniques, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by ...

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 ...

String Quintet Truls Mørk, Cello Franz Schubert, Composer Artemis Quartet String Quartet No. 12, 'Quartettsatz' Franz Schubert, Composer Artemis Quartet The Quartettsatz is similarly approached. The ...

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, ...