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 ...
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 ...
If chamber music had its own Top 10, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet surely would rank high on the list. It will be the featured work in the annual midwinter concert Saturday at Moravian College by chamber ...
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 ...
Experience the beauty of the Central Park and Schubert's Cello Quintet! The program will feature Franz Schubert's masterpiece The Cello Quintet - a staple of chamber music which features lush romantic ...
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 ...
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, ...
Classical fare will provide a different kind of break during the working day in Valparaiso. The South Shore Orchestra presents another installment of its Lunchtime Chamber Series at 1 p.m. Oct. 21 in ...
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 ...
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 ...