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 ...

The Concertante Chamber Players have had a numerical theme for each of their performances this season, and their upcoming concert at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center at HACC is no exception. “The first ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Takacs Quartet make their first offering to Schubert year: the distinctive character of their new recording of the final string quartet certainly justifies its place in a catalogue bulging with 14 ...

We're sticking with music by Franz Schubert for a little while longer. An assembly of four musicians from the legendary Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont play Schubert's String Quartet, D. 94.

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 ...

The Tokyo String Quartet plays the Allegro from the String Quartet No. 4 in C by Schubert.