There wasn’t reason to expect much, in the way of context or ambition, from what ultimately turned out to be Gustavo Dudamel’s extraordinary cycle of Schubert symphonies completed over the weekend ...

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.

Barbara Schubert has shaped generations of University Symphony Orchestra musicians—now they're returning to play for her Opus ...

In September, the Wigmore Hall began a concert series that sees the chamber music venue programme all Schubert’s 600 songs in a series of concerts throughout the 15/16 and 16/17 seasons. We asked some ...

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 ...

A few months before he died in 1828 at the age of 31, Franz Schubert produced a setting of the 92nd Psalm, Tov Lehodot La’Adonai. Yet, as Graham Johnson asks in his massive new compendium about the ...

So who was Franz Schubert, really? Quite possibly not the cherubic genius that novels, films and even biographies have depicted him as being. Schubert, it seems, could be real trouble, especially when ...

Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert. What can we hear in his music? And what life lessons can it teach us? Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert. What can we hear ...

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 ...