At the piano is Polina Leschenko, the Russian-born virtuoso celebrated for her interpretations of Chopin, Liszt and ...

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What makes a melody memorable? There are as many answers as there are memorable melodies. All the tunes that find homes in our recollection have their own distinct profiles. If they have anything in ...

Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

Picture the most fun weekend you can ever remember, away from it all, enjoying something wholly foundational and completely new. You and a group of friends decide to go fly fishing in a mountain ...

Elegance, beauty and irrepressible good humour: music from the pen of a 22 year-old prodigy — inspired by the tragi-comic death of a fish! Schubert’s "Trout" Quintet is one of the best loved of all ...

A delightful drawing, made by one of Schubert’s friends, captures the cosy ambience of the musical evenings they shared in Vienna. It is an intimate gathering, with the composer at the piano and 30 or ...

This is Schubert played with heart-stopping freshness, the composer as romantic rather than classicist. You realise that this is actually a young man's music: Schubert, though near death, was barely ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

Fitting Schubert's heavenly string ­quintet and the final two quartets, all substantial works, on to just two discs is quite a feat, but the price to be paid is that the G major quartet is awkwardly ...

Coming in at No 3 behind Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s C major String Quintet of 1828 has long been a favourite on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, ...