Schubert Songs, with a Twist: We'll hear two songs by Schubert souped up as solo piano transcriptions by Leopold Godowski (goh-DAWF-skee). We'll hear "Wandering" and "The Trout." It's a performance ...

On Nov. 19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When ...

In 1821, in Vienna, a friend of Franz Schubert wrote to his fiancée about a singular event he’d just attended: In 1821, in Vienna, a friend of Franz Schubert wrote to his fiancée about a singular ...

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 ...

When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit ...

Celebrate the work of Franz Schubert with host Scott Yoo as he plays with young musicians. Celebrate the work of Franz Schubert with host Scott Yoo as he plays with young musicians establishing ...

Most song cycles are written for a persona that is identifiably male or female, but it's not always clear how important it is for the singer to follow suit. Soprano Barbara Bonney seemed intent on ...

For Samuel Beckett, it was never words and music, no matter that they were personified in his 1962 radio play, “Words and Music.” It was ever words are music. Reputed to have been a fine musician ...

In addition to their artistic complexity, Schubert's songs revel in the directly expressive power of melody. But you wouldn't have known it from Matthias Goerne's laboriously mannered account of "Die ...

Some think of Beethoven and Schubert as the musical equivalent of Thanksgiving dinner: solid, sober fare presented in the same, fixed manner every time. Gifted cooks and musicians know better. They ...

Viola is the Rodney Dangerfield of orchestral instruments. Like that 20th-century comedian, the viola is known for getting no respect. Above it in pitch is the violin, the instrument of the superstar ...