Sakuntala Trio’s excellent debut album includes a completion of Schubert’s first string trio. And Jamie MacDougall and Mr McFall’s Chamber revel in songs and chamber music from Mexico At first glance, ...

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 ...

René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra fizz in youthful Schubert. Plus, the complete works of a Renaissance eccentric Schubert wrote his first five symphonies in his teens, youthful works without the ...

Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: $11 | ArkivMusic: $18 | Qobuz download: £13.50 - 19 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $12 Krystian Zimerman is an elusive figure in classical music, which has become a rare thing in ...

The old Ohio State Reformatory, setting for The Shawshank Redemption There’s an extraordinary scene midway through The Shawshank Redemption that illustrates the power of music to free the soul. It's a ...

When it came to deciding who would play the high parts and low parts in their four-handed piano performance of Schubert’s famed Fantasy in F Minor, Garrick Ohlsson weighed in with an argument that ...

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 ...

At London’s Wigmore Hall, Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi offered virtuosic renditions of Schubert, Liszt and Bach ...

Daniel Barenboim with audience onstage at the Royal Festival Hall last night If you’re going to do that, Schubert is a good target. Anyone who has had to tackle the composer’s music at the keyboard ...