For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so clearly how he felt’. I’d question whether Schubert knew that his days ...

String Quartet No. 14, 'Death and the Maiden' Franz Schubert, Composer Artemis Quartet String Quartet No. 13 Franz Schubert, Composer Artemis Quartet String Quartet No. 15 Artemis Quartet Franz ...

New releases from the Emersons, the Arod Quartet and Quartetto di Cremona; and at home with Spitalfields Music Robert Schumann, who suffered mood swings and periods of severe mental instability, wrote ...

THE Czech group, the Wihan Quartet, having moved from their complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle on to the string quartets of Dvorak, now turn their attention to Schubert with a fascinating disc of ...

The Wihan Quartet open Schubert's last string quartet with a strong emphasis on its monumentality. They are sure and steady, and sometimes broaden their slowish tempo even further. The 22-minute- long ...

Schubert’s compositions became more expansive towards the end of his short life, and it was Schumann who famously praised the “heavenly length” of the composer’s final symphony. His final string ...