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, ...
Not everything a great composer writes is always great music. Everyone has a hit rate and these vary from genius to genius. Even by Schubert’s own standards, though, the Adagio from the String Quintet ...
Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major is linked to death in a way few pieces of music are. The early 19th century Austrian composer was prolific enough to have a large body of work yet died quite ...