When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.

The most poetic musician who ever lived? It’s hard to disagree with Liszt’s appraisal of Schubert, who, in his short life, used his astonishing gift for melodic and harmonic invention to create many ...

In September, the Wigmore Hall began a concert series that sees the chamber music venue programme all Schubert’s 600 songs in a series of concerts throughout the 15/16 and 16/17 seasons. We asked some ...

Quote of the Day by Franz Schubert highlights the deep value of true friendship. He believed finding a trusted friend is ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s fascinating new life of the great composer has a shrewd eye for the relation between man and music Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

So who was Franz Schubert, really? Quite possibly not the cherubic genius that novels, films and even biographies have depicted him as being. Schubert, it seems, could be real trouble, especially when ...

There wasn’t reason to expect much, in the way of context or ambition, from what ultimately turned out to be Gustavo Dudamel’s extraordinary cycle of Schubert symphonies completed over the weekend ...