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 ...

Victor Kissine’s original arrangement of Schubert’s G major String Quartet was, according to Gidon Kremer, ‘virtually unplayable’. But after a lengthy interchange of views, the final result was ...

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 Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

On Nov. 12, the Jupiter String Quartet gave a concert in Foellinger Great Hall, offering a wonderful program of string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, as well as a quartet by ...

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 ...

Two remarkable concerts took place this weekend at Barrister Winery that are sure to merit mention in any history of musical life in Spokane, and remain vividly alive in the memories of everyone who ...