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.

None of Franz Schubert’s works–except for “Winterreise”–brings us closer to the Viennese composer’s tortured soul than his personal, emotionally charged final piano sonatas. Valery Afanassiev’s heavy, ...

While Schubert is not perhaps in Ivana Gavri´c ’s blood, the rest of this piano recital finds her getting to the nub of a wide range of musical styles, with a particularly poignant account of Janá ...

ASPEN ” Ann Schein, an Aspen Music Festival faculty artist favorite, delivered a spellbinding piano recital Wednesday in Harris Hall that included Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy and Chopin’s Sonata in B ...

Carolin Widmann (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano) ECM New Series 476 4546***** Schubert's music for violin and piano presents an unusual range of challenges. The earliest three sonatas, which are ...

Acclaimed worldwide as one the leading performers of classical piano repertoire, Mitsuko Uchida (pictured) brings the second programme of her international Schubert Sonata survey to the Royal Festival ...

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.