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 ...

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 ...

Not everything a great composer writes is always great music. Everyone has a hit rate and these vary from genius to genius. Even by Schubert’s own standards, though, the Adagio from the String Quintet ...

Valentin Erben (cello), Belcea Quartet EMI Classics 967 0252 (2 CDs)***** An on-form Belcea Quartet here offer Schubert's last three chamber works for strings, the great C major String Quintet, the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Best known for their superb interpretation of the six Bartok string quartets, the Takcs quartet ...

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 ...

Emerson String Quartet: The Schubert bicentennial celebration continued Friday night with a boilerplate tribute in Mandel Hall from the Emerson String Quartet. None of the three works on the ...

Hailed for their “luxuriously warm sound and yearning lyricism” (The New York Times), few string quartets in the world compare to the internationally renowned Brentano Quartet. Returning to CMNW for ...

Jane Jones choses a featured work that unites two of Schubert's extraordinary talents. Schubert's String Quartet No.14 in D minor brings together two of the composer's extraordinary talents. Schubert ...

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, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Packed with elegant athleticism, the Australian String Quartet's opening series revealed an ensemble in top form, the linear mesh as ...