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

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 ...

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, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” (“Winter Journey”) is almost relentlessly ...

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 ...

Hertz Hall was a full house on March 17. The day was no different for world-class musicians and esteemed Schubert players Mark Padmore (vocalist) and Mitsuko Uchida (piano), both with lengthy careers ...

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 ...

-- When Franz Schubert played and sang for his friends what would be one of his last works, "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), they were "dumbfounded" by the song cycle's emotional bleakness. But the ...

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