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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Stanthorpe. Followed categories will be added to My News. On the program are Schubert's String Quintet in C Major and Beethoven's Septet in E-flat Major. "Franz ...

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 ...

Genius rears its miraculous head at many ages, as CityMusic Cleveland's program this week acknowledges to blissful effect. Mendelssohn was 16 when he composed his Octet for Strings. Schubert died at ...

Among of the delights of Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major — in addition to the fact that some of us consider it the most profound and beautiful music ever written — is the way it creates new ...

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 ...

Elegance, beauty and irrepressible good humour: music from the pen of a 22 year-old prodigy — inspired by the tragi-comic death of a fish! Schubert’s "Trout" Quintet is one of the best loved of all ...