Eric Lu: Schubert Impromptus album review – mature and mesmerising

In this recording of the eight Impromptus, some of Schubert’s most profound music, Lu cements his place as a serious talent ...

An English Song Winterreise review – Roderick Williams masterfully mirrors Schubert’s iconic song cycle

The baritone has refined his playlist to include Vaughan Williams, Ina Boyle and Gerald Finzi, lending this enthralling cycle deeper melancholy than the original ...
Los Angeles Times

In Schubert’s last sonata, the trill’s the thing

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.
Forbes

Classical CD Of The Week: Schubert At His Secret Best With Four Hands

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 ...
The New York Times

Schubert’s Operas Were Failures. Is Their Music Worth Saving?

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...
BBC

Schubert - The Dark Side

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 ...