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 ...

The Schubert Club has unveiled the lineup for its 2026–27 Music in the Park Series and International Artist Series, the latter of which was established more than 125 years ago. The season features a ...

A few months before he died in 1828 at the age of 31, Franz Schubert produced a setting of the 92nd Psalm, Tov Lehodot La’Adonai. Yet, as Graham Johnson asks in his massive new compendium about the ...

Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this ...

Fitting Schubert's heavenly string ­quintet and the final two quartets, all substantial works, on to just two discs is quite a feat, but the price to be paid is that the G major quartet is awkwardly ...

The composer Franz Schubert died on November 19 1828, aged only 31. This article, by Roger Scruton, was first published by The Telegraph in 2012. Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, ...

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 ...