Schubert Archive

Franz Schubert left us more than 600 songs. Among these is the Staendchen or “Serenade”. What wonderful, lyrical sounds these are, often expressing the tragedies in the composer’s life and his death at age 31. …

Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano, and Alina Ibragimova, violin, bring you the music of Franz Schubert. This was performed at Wigmore Hall, London. The music is Schubert’s sonatas for violin and piano…  

I have previously shared with you the sensitive performances of Yeol Eum Son. Today I continue, and this time it is the predictably sad work by Schubert titled Fantasie in C-Major, D. 934. I say …

Schubert completed his Piano Sonata in A-Major in July 1819, and it was dedicated to Josephine von Koller of Steyr in Upper Austria, whom he considered to be “very pretty” and “a good pianist”. The …

Romanian pianist Radu Lupu enjoyed an outstandingly successful career. Born in 1945, he began piano studies at the age of six, and after only six years of study made his public recital debut; later he …