Awed by their grandeur, Roderick Williams put off performing the great song cycles of Beethoven and Schubert for many years: doing so now with his veteran accompanist Ian Burnside, he makes that wait ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Schubert - Complete String Quartets. Re-edition. (Recordings 1989). The Sine Nomine string quartet was founded in Lausanne in 1975. The Sine Nomine has a vast repertoire ranging from Haydn to Kurtag ...
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is an exciting weekday program that delves into a wide assortment of topics in classical music. Each weekly series builds off a single theme ranging from composer ...
Put yourself in the offices of the German wing of EMI records in 1985. A leading group, the Alban Berg Quartett – named after the famous modernist composer from their home country of Austria – has ...
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 ...