Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Carlo Maria Giulini’s temperament, a combination of Mediterranean warmth and asceticism, was well attuned to ...

Guest Conductor Dennis Russell Davies continued his mini-tenure with the Seattle Symphony this week with an interesting set of pieces by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and both together. We had Liszt for ...

This week’s Seattle Symphony program grew from a seed planted by famed Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin. “He wanted to play the ‘Wanderer Fantasy,’ and guest conductor Dennis Russell Davies decided ...

T okyo Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert featuring two symphonies by Austrian composer Franz Schubert along with Alban Berg's 1935 "Violin Concerto" on Sept. 26 and 27. Led by Dutch conductor ...

Franz Schubert admired Mozart and in 1816 wrote in his diary, "O Mozart! immortal Mozart! what countless impressions of a brighter, better life hast thou stamped upon our souls!” This was the year ...

It was 10 years after Franz Schubert’s death that his Symphony No 9, known as the “Great,” was given its first public performance. Schubert’s brother, Ferdinand, showed the score to composer Robert ...

Symphony No. 2 Antwerp Symphony Orchestra Philippe Herreweghe, Conductor Franz Schubert, Composer Symphony No. 5 Antwerp Symphony Orchestra Franz Schubert, Composer Philippe Herreweghe, Conductor It’s ...

Symphony No. 1 Heinz Holliger, Conductor Basel Chamber Orchestra Franz Schubert, Composer Symphony No. 5 Heinz Holliger, Conductor Franz Schubert, Composer Basel Chamber Orchestra Fierrabras, ...

Here & Now music opinionator Fran Hoepfner about her music pick for Valentine's Day: Franz Schubert's "Great Symphony." She says she hears "a lot of hope" in the symphony even though the composer ...

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