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 ...

The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners The Takács have recorded the G major ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Schubert’s three late string quartets pose a dilemma for their interpreters. Should the music sound essentially warm ...

The Marmen Quartet and Chiaroscuro Quartet perform at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival ...

Schubert's music, like the creative output of only a small collection of mortals, has a way of transporting us into heavenly realms. Nothing else exists when these sonic ideas are haunting our ears.

Following on from the Fitzwilliam’s recording of Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden Quartets on Divine Art comes this new release of the Quartettsatz and the G major Quartet. Enterprisingly ...

THE Czech group, the Wihan Quartet, having moved from their complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle on to the string quartets of Dvorak, now turn their attention to Schubert with a fascinating disc of ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so clearly how he felt’. I’d question whether Schubert knew that his days ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...