Schubert News

If all you want is a strong performance of "Death and the Maiden", you will have a hard time choosing between the Belcea Quartet's latest recording and last year's release from the Jerusalem Quartet.

The incomparable Franz Schubert died of typhus on 19 November 1828 at the age of 31 in the city of Vienna , where he was born on 31 January 1797 and was a chorister and pupil of Salieri .

In Beijing, the classical traditions of Europe set the tone as virtuoso cellist Yo-yo Ma and British pianist Kathryn Stott collaborated for a night of passionate musical revelry at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

A tornado of musical instruments has touched down in St. Paul. French horns, guitars, guiros, violins, drums and clarinets swirl up a cone-shaped sculpture that greets you as you enter the new Schubert Club Museum, which opens today at St.

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook's reading of Schubert's earlier song cycle is more conventional than Padmore and Lewis's Winterreise .

A few years back, when I was earning my money as a music writer for this newspaper, I received a package in the mail promoting an unusual product.

At the beginning of the Albeniz Navarra, Arthur Rubinstein himself can just barely be heard announcing the piece.

Alfred Brendel works with a graduate student during a master class. World-renowned pianist Alfred Brendel sang, gestured and rose to his feet passionately - all to imitate the rise and fall of a melody to School of Music students gathered at the Morse Recital Hall Thursday.

BalletX, a contemporary dance company in Philadelphia, opens its third season at The Wilma Theater November 19-22, 2009 and presents world premiere by Matthew Neenan "Last of the Year" set to the classical score by Antonio Vivaldi, Alexander Borodin and Franz Schubert.

For some reason a debate has reared its head about how the credit crunch has stifled adventurous concert programming.

Philip Langridge may have lost his youthful glamour as Britten's post-Pears tenor mouthpiece - presumably he doesn't have that vital picture in the attic - but at 70 he's still debonair.

Classical music took over the White House on Wednesday as Barack and Michelle Obama used two concerts and a series of workshops for young musicians to send a clear message that the music of the masters isn't just for stuffed shirts.

Evolution of dance: Mark Baldwin's 'The Comedy of Change' Henri Oguike's new work, Tread Softly, is flawed but powerful, and demands more than one viewing.

The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, founded in 1841, is just a year older than the New York Philharmonic , but with its avowed specialty - music of the Viennese Classical era - this ensemble makes the conservative Philharmonic look like a wild-eyed new-music band.

Renowned classical pianist Andre Watts will appear in recital at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov.

Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis are two British musicians at the height of their powers.

Returning for a third season, Vancouver Recital Society showcases the brightest young stars already appearing on the international stages.

The Concertmaster Trio Elliott Markow, violin & viola Steven Jackson, clarinet George Lopez, piano WHAT: CHAMBER MASTERS WHERE: The First Church - 1 Concord Street - Nashua, NH 03064 WHEN: November 15, 2009 at 3PM WHY: FIRST MUSIC continues in its second season with a spectacular concert program including works by Mozart, Schubert, Khachaturian, ...

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Formed in St Petersburg and currently based in Berlin, the Atrium Quartet has been winning consistently high praise, and their technically very impressive playing showed why.