Kate Liu Plays Schubert
On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 I heard pianist Kate Liu play for the very first time. “Wow”, I said… we will hear more from her… In my view, she was able to convey the sadness …
Franz Schubert Archive
Blomstedt Leads Schubert’s Symphony #9, “The Great”.
Horns quietly breathe life into the opening Andante of this symphony with a haunting, irregularly shaped melody which is taken up by the woodwinds as a plaything for gentle, lyrical purposes and then for dramatic …
The Octet in F-Major by Schubert
After visiting Schubert some time during February 1824, the painter Moritz von Schwind wrote to their mutual friend Franz von Schober: ‘Schubert has now long been at work on an octet, with the greatest enthusiasm. …
The Delightful Symphony #3 by Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert’s Third Symphony is notably shorter than his first two symphonies. But it also foreshadows ideas that would expand the scale of the symphony. The rushing scale passage of the first movement’s slow introduction …
Seong-Jin Cho Plays Schubert’s Sonata #19
The opening of this sonata is dramatic, with a forte C-minor chord. The most salient feature of the first theme is the sudden digression to A♭ major. Both themes progress somewhat in the style of …