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Schubert Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Schubert.

Results 1 - 20 of 414 in Schubert

  1. An inspired opener for New England String EnsembleRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | Boston Globe

    ... The 21-player group made a compact presence on Jordan Hall's stage, but a Danube-Oder-Canal program - Franz Schubert bookending works from eastern Europe - often aspired to symphonic scale. Schubert's Rondo in A (D. 438) found both ensemble and ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Franz Schubert, Lutoslawski, Music, Entertainment

  2. Classical review: London Sinfonietta / Jean-Bernard Pommier and friends / Schubert Ensemble

    20 hrs ago | MediaGuardian.co.uk

    ... outstanding contributions from oboist Maurice Bourgue and violinist Olga Martinova. Nothing beats a bit of Schubert in the morning, however, and a 9.30am appointment with the Schubert Ensemble on Friday proved the most magical of my Kings Place ...

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  3. Bach transposed into a flatRead the original story

    Sunday | The Austrailian

    ... man himself remains forever just beyond our reach. I sometimes worry that the great composers -- Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, etc -- will never quite touch me, or pierce me, as they once did. Then the worry recedes with a particular fresh ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Bach, Mozart

  4. Pianist Catherine Vickers to play pieces by Schubert, Chopin at Sunday concertRead the original story

    Apr 10, 2008 | Times-Herald

    ... who was born and raised in Regina, performs in Moose Jaw Sunday, she'll be sticking with the classics. Franz Schubert's Klavierstuecke D. 946 and Frederic Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 are on the program. Vickers will be performing Klavierstuecke D. 946 ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Chopin, Mandy, World News, Germany, Karlsruhe, Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

  5. Pianist Catherine Vickers performs in Moose Jaw SundayRead the original story

    Mar 10, 2008 | Times-Herald

    ... performs in Moose Jaw Sunday at Zion United Church beginning at 2 p.m., she'll be sticking with the classics. Franz Schubert's Klavierstuecke D. 946 and Frederic Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 are on the program. Read more in Saturday's Times-Herald.

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    Related Topix: World News, Germany, Karlsruhe, Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

  6. All hands on deckRead the original story

    Thursday Oct 2 | The Boston Globe

    ... with their teacher tonight at Leon Fleisher & Friends: An All-Piano Concert . The program of Bach, Schumann, Schubert, Dvorak, Mozart, and others is a celebration of Fleisher's 80th birthday - wouldn't a classical version of "Happy Birthday" be the ...

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  7. Famed Austrian boy choir to sing in HCMCRead the original story

    Wednesday Oct 1 | Thanh Nein News

    ... children choirs in Europe, the Vienna Boys' Choir has worked with great composers such as Heinrich Isaac, Franz Schubert, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The choir's performance is its first for an annual music program entitled 'Vietnam Airlines ...

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    Related Topix: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, World News

  8. Botox is key to success for 80-year-old pianist Leon Fleisher

    Wednesday Oct 1 | Boston Herald

    ... such as Yefim Bronfman, Jonathan Biss and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher. And your fun includes performing Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven and Ravel. And why not make it opening night for the Celebrity Series season, just for kicks? Fleisher has, after ...

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  9. Greenville Symphony Orchestra turns 80Read the original story

    Wednesday Oct 1 | Sharon Herald

    ... be no different in that sense, offering the recognizable theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey" before moving on to Schubert's famous "March Militaire," which was featured in the orchestra's first concert in 1929. John Williams' ever-popular "The Empire ...

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    Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Thiel College, Family, Kids, Classical

  10. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museuma s a oeThe Concerta Podcast Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads

    Wednesday Oct 1 | Creative Commons Blog

    ... artists recorded from the museuma s Sunday Concert Series. a oeThe Concerta includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for solo piano, orchestra, string quartet, and voice. A new podcast will be posted on the 1st and 15th of every ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Beethoven, Chopin

  11. Lush and sensual SinatraRead the original story

    Wednesday Oct 1 | Vancouver Sun

    ... -- we know how it is to work with each other." Also on the program -- and in which Wallace again performs -- is Schubert, choreographed by Ballet BC's artistic director, John Alleyne. "This is my fourth time performing this role," ways Wallace, who ...

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  12. Be the first to commentRead the original story

    Tuesday Sep 30 | Western Morning News

    ... virtuosity of the ensemble's lead violinist Adam Summerhayes. The ambitious programme also includes two octets by Schubert and Francais. Both demand virtuosic playing and will display the skills of all of members of the London Concertante. The ...

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  13. Paul (left) and Hew performed classical recitals at St Mary's Church.

    Sunday Sep 28 | This Is Grimsby

    ... The first item of the evening was Sonata in D Major, Op 58, by Mendelssohn - an exuberant start. It was followed by Schubert's Sonata in A Minor D821, originally written for the Arpeggione, a cross between a cello and a guitar. After the interval, ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Mendelssohn, Cello, Franck

  14. Almost packing a punchRead the original story

    Friday Sep 26 | The Telegraph

    ... Kaberi Basu, provides a rather prosaic title, completely erasing Death as well as the evocative allusion to Schubert's famous lied . And, as in all the interpretations I have seen so far, director Kishore Sengupta deletes the challenging last scene, ...

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  15. Schubert - Der Tod und das Madchen

    Friday Sep 26 | NZ Herald

    ... of the Jerusalem Quartet are regular firebrands in the sedate world of chamber music. Their latest CD, pairing Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet with the single-movement Quartettsatz , is a fiery affair. The 1820 Quartettsatz was denied the ...

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  16. Gramophone Awards 2008, plus someRead the original story

    Friday Sep 26 | Jessica Duchen's classical music blog

    ... Terezin CD; Richard Goode's complete Beethoven sonatas; Andras Schiff in the Goldberg Variations; Mitsuko Uchida's Schubert B flat Sonata; Matthias Goerne and Brendel in Winterreise; Marc-Andre Hamelin's mind-boggling Chopin/Godowsky set? And those ...

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  17. Great 'Fantasy'Read the original story

    Friday Sep 26 | Buffalo News

    ... Manes' set list for the evening dipped into the catalogs of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert for some familiar favorites before unveiling a work by Lionel Nowak (Manes' first piano teacher) and concluding with a brief ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Mozart, Schumann

  18. Guitarist prefers challenging musicRead the original story

    Friday Sep 26 | Edmonton Journal

    ... if not the actual style of earlier forms. "The Sonata Romantica, for instance, is dedicated by Ponce to (Franz) Schubert, and the (Joaquin) Rodrigo (Sonata Giocosa) is inspired by folk music. All of these composers looked into the past and took ...

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  19. Silent film mixes dramatic scenario, live musicRead the original story

    Wednesday Sep 24 | The Webster Journal

    ... an original work by Pandolfi, but the original film score and classical pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert inspired him. This process is very similar to how the musicians played the accompaniment in the early 20th century. There were ...

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  20. Vladimir FeltsmanRead the original story

    Wednesday Sep 24 | The Middlebury Campus

    ... he performed in the Mahaney Center for the Arts concert hall, was chronologically ordered, progressing from Bach to Schubert and closing with Mussorgsky. The intermission cleanly divided the introspective (Bach and Schubert) from the extroverted ...

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    Related Topix: Classical, Vladimir Feltsman, Mussorgsky, Bach