If classical music had a top 30, and the number wasn't based on unit sales or radio spins (remember those, kiddies?), Franz Schubert's Quintet in C Major, Opus 163, would have to be on it. Not only is ...

In this bittersweet music, Schubert added an extra cello to the standard string quartet, and in the process created a completely new sound for a... Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet In C ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Best known for their superb interpretation of the six Bartok string quartets, the Takcs quartet ...

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 ...

7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. $10-$25. The Little Rock Chamber Society opens its 2010-2011 season with a decorated, young Canadian quartet. Formed in 2006, Afiara (a derivation of the ...

Emerson String Quartet: The Schubert bicentennial celebration continued Friday night with a boilerplate tribute in Mandel Hall from the Emerson String Quartet. None of the three works on the ...

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 ...

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, ...