Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ...

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 ...

What was Franz Schubert's frame of mind when he composed this haunted work? Even worse than Gordon Brown's today, that's for sure ... To escape the endless parade of Gordon Brown's bigot-gate today, I ...

The Music: After his acclaimed Beethoven odyssey of the past few years, Lewis returns to the other love of his life - a composer who himself adored Beethoven - in a programme of late works mixing ...

The first CD puts down an opening marker with the anti-virtuosic ruminations of Schubert’s Litanei and Liszt’s La lugubre gondola – the latter a wonderful piece, played with sad and searching ...

The gentle, conversational way in which Maria João Pires launches the A minor Sonata D845 immediately identifies a pianist with a deep understanding of Schubert’s music and its spectrum of expression.

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Let’s just say of the Sunday-afternoon third in his series that it always fascinated even when it felt odd or wrong, and that Barenboim put Schubert’s infinite variety to the test with an unusual ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

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.