Schubert News

Schubert's song cycle depicts an emotional journey through a barren landscape. December 8, 2009 - Franz Schubert revolutionized the German art song in a very real sense: He was among the first to exploit the possibilities of song cycles , and he brought a new level of sophistication and insight to the setting of poetry.

MAPPING the no man's land between poetry and music may be impossible, but exploring it is not.

Louis Armstrong was a bundle of contradictions: a dazzling trumpeter who knocked the Beatles off the pop charts; a prolific writer and composer who was threatened by the mob.

It was a family affair. The most recent performer in the Coast Recital Society's stellar season was world renowned baritone Russell Braun from Toronto with his professional accompanist - and wife - Carolyn Maule on piano.

Belcea Quartet, Valentin Erben: Schubert String Quintet in C, String Quartets in G & D minor Nicholas Kenyon This is Schubert played with heart-stopping freshness, the composer as romantic rather than classicist.

Boston public radio station WGBH's recent acquisition of WCRB might be good news for classical music fans in Boston, but it leaves many Rhode Islanders who depend on WGBH for their classical programming out in the cold.

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.