The baritone has refined his playlist to include Vaughan Williams, Ina Boyle and Gerald Finzi, lending this enthralling cycle deeper melancholy than the original ...

In this recording of the eight Impromptus, some of Schubert’s most profound music, Lu cements his place as a serious talent ...

Many classical works pick up nicknames over time, often just to help us tell them apart. Franz Schubert’s “Little Symphony” ...

With the traditional music industry in shambles, the larger labels are repackaging their deep catalogs as never before, releasing well-conceived box sets that are modestly priced for the amount of ...

Now, Lewis assails these pieces differently and to shattering effect: febrile, feverish, fervent and frenzied – sometimes even violent. The opening bars of D958 in C Minor (manuscript pictured below) ...

Never mind the singing, Roderick Williams could have been a great TV presenter or even stand-up, on the evidence of his ...

WSHU gives you the best seat in the house for Carnegie Hall Live. Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a sweeping program featuring Schubert’s “Great” Symphony, tonight at 8pm on 91.1, ...

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 ...

John Schaefer: I’m John Schaefer, and you’re listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab, WQXR’s incubator for emerging and mid-career classical musicians and composers. Every other Thursday for the next ...

It's all about the intimacy. If you like your classical music full of big sounds and spectacle, go to the opera. You want something large-scale with lots of layers? Catch an orchestra. But if you want ...