If you would have told Austrian composer Franz Schubert that an ensemble of musicians, led by American expatriate Bryan Benner, would be reimagining his classical scores nearly 200 years later, he ...
When it came to deciding who would play the high parts and low parts in their four-handed piano performance of Schubert’s famed Fantasy in F Minor, Garrick Ohlsson weighed in with an argument that ...
Some orchestral music simply sounds better performed by ensembles smaller than Strauss-size forces, and in cozier settings.
Part of the “Great Performances” series “Now Hear This,” which focuses each of its episodes on a great composer, “The Schubert Generation” features a number of phenomenally talented young performers ...
Of the five great composers whose names are etched into the Michigan Avenue facade of Orchestra Hall, Franz Schubert may be the least familiar to today’s listeners. We know far more about the music ...
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 ...
OBEISANCES to Franz Schubert continue, and of course the Columbia com-pany, which seems to be responsible for the centennial celebration of the composer’s death year, is still leading in the ...