His grasp of Schubert’s scale and ebullience means this is among the finest recordings of one of the composer’s final sonatas Steven Osborne’s third album of Schubert for Hyperion is the first to ...

The Czech trio deliver two great works with freshness, energy and maximum intensity This is the Trio Bohémo’s first CD, and it’s an immensely promising debut. Schubert’s great E flat Piano Trio D929 ...

(18) Lieder (Schubert), Movements: Sei mir gegrüsst Leon McCawley, Piano Franz Liszt, Composer (18) Lieder (Schubert), Movements: Die junge Nonne Franz Liszt, Composer (18) Lieder (Schubert), ...

The Music: The piano duet drew from Schubert some of his most intimate and imaginative creations. The medium wonderfully suited his affection for music-making with friends and provided the chance for ...

When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.

Humphrey Burton’s weekend of music by Schubert ended with a piano recital by Christian Blackshaw that included his last and greatest sonata for that instrument. The evening began with the six Moments ...

Schubert was a great composer, of course, and he wrote some superb piano music but a recital devoted solely to him has its dangers. Although his melodic invention rarely fails he can be discursive and ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...