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 ...

Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major is linked to death in a way few pieces of music are. The early 19th century Austrian composer was prolific enough to have a large body of work yet died quite ...

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 ...

A lot of yoga classes included music, but in Pennsylvania, yogis are moving to the performance of a live string quintet and music composed just for yoga practice. There's yoga with baby goats or yoga ...

As members of one of the world’s leading Bruckner orchestras, violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen know the 19th century Austrian symphonist better than most. But when the board chair of their ...

Two recent performances of Franz Schubert’s sublime String Quintet in C Major provided an opportunity to test a common presumption in the classical-music business: that older performers invariably ...

“There’s a reason it’s so beloved -- because it’s so cool.” David Young, principal bass for the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and founder of the L.A.-based String Family Players, is talking about ...

Max Bruch's String Quintet in E flat was one of three major works composed in the years before his death in 1920. It was not performed until 2008, and this is its first recording. Bruch uses Mozart's ...

Bringing attention to a neglected aspect of the composer’s work, this recording shows these quintets are one of his finest achievements, full of lyricism and power With the exception of a handful of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...