Works by Schubert and Brahms are interwoven with 13 of composer’s own songs in this beautifully realised collection ...

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.

Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this ...

The most poetic musician who ever lived? It’s hard to disagree with Liszt’s appraisal of Schubert, who, in his short life, used his astonishing gift for melodic and harmonic invention to create many ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

The composer Franz Schubert died on November 19 1828, aged only 31. This article, by Roger Scruton, was first published by The Telegraph in 2012. Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, ...

Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s fascinating new life of the great composer has a shrewd eye for the relation between man and music Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...