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.

While Schubert is not perhaps in Ivana Gavri´c ’s blood, the rest of this piano recital finds her getting to the nub of a wide range of musical styles, with a particularly poignant account of Janá ...

Carolin Widmann (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano) ECM New Series 476 4546***** Schubert's music for violin and piano presents an unusual range of challenges. The earliest three sonatas, which are ...

Acclaimed worldwide as one the leading performers of classical piano repertoire, Mitsuko Uchida (pictured) brings the second programme of her international Schubert Sonata survey to the Royal Festival ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music that Schubert composed in the last months of his life has acquired a quasi-mythical status. A picture ...

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.