Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky ...

This quartet combines a glorious selection of blonde beards and moustaches and eyelashes and floppy fringes with playing that ...

A century after the composer’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet were premiered, the Brodsky Quartet return them to the spotlight In May 1919, the first public performances of Elgar’s String Quartet ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases. c2.10pm The music writer, novelist, and opera librettist ...

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, ...