The art song is a musical genre that really got its start in the early nineteenth century. One of the true pioneers of the form was the composer Franz Schubert, who used memorable tunes, clever piano ...

It’s time to return to Winterreise. When it comes to Schubert’s “Winter Journey,” I prefer bass-baritones to tenors for one simple reason. The type of tenor who would sing Winterreise isn’t a voice ...

Els Biesemans's newest CD brings multiple pleasures. There are the joys of hearing Liszt's keyboard transcriptions of 12 of the 24 songs of Schubert's Winterreise. There are the songs by Mendelssohn ...

Like Frederick Douglass, Franz Schubert is an example of somebody who is getting recognized more and more these days, so much so that I was compelled to write about him recently in the magazine—a ...

Franz Schubert is largely credited with inventing the classical song cycle, and his 1828 “Winterreise” — or “Winter Journey” — the forlorn reflections of a young man who has lost his love to another, ...

Netia Jones’s direction is uncharacteristically neutral, but the Britten Sinfonia rises to Zender’s pungent scoring to lead us on a powerful musical journey As tenor Ian Bostridge has himself ...

A work ahead of its time, the composer’s great song cycle meditates on all our disappointments. By Phil Hebblethwaite “Come over to Schober’s today, and I will sing you a cycle of terrifying songs,” ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hardly surprising so many singers should want to conquer this Everest of art-song repertoire: more than ...