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 ...

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 ...

Franz Schubert's vacation turned out to be a good time for meeting women and writing music. His "Trout Quintet" was inspired by a patron in the Austrian resort of Speyr. Leif Ove Andsnes is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a programme of Schubert, Chausson and Weir, the chamber group stuck to the formula that has proved so successful for them The Schubert Ensemble have been plying their trade for 35 years, the last ...

Beethoven String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1 Dohnányi Serenade Schubert Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major, D. 667, ‘The Trout’ Well known musicians from the San Francisco Symphony, San Jose ...

A delightful drawing, made by one of Schubert’s friends, captures the cosy ambience of the musical evenings they shared in Vienna. It is an intimate gathering, with the composer at the piano and 30 or ...

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 ...

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, ...

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 "Trout" Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Hwayoon Lee (viola), Maximilian Hornung (cello), Roman Patkoló (double bass) Franz ...