Anglophone theatre people wish each other good luck (or better, anti-bad luck) with the phrase “break a leg.” The Germans ...

The art song is a musical genre that really got its start in the early nineteenth century. One of the true pioneers of the form was the composer Franz Schubert, who used memorable tunes, clever piano ...

So many orchestrations of Schubert’s songs leave them all too comfortably upholstered. Not so Hans Zender’s chilling ...

In a new staging by Netia Jones, Hans Zender’s “composed interpretation” of Schubert’s “Winterreise” burnishes its source material. This little song from Ludwig Tieck’s 1797 artistic fairy-tale “Der ...

Franz Schubert is largely credited with inventing the classical song cycle, and his 1828 “Winterreise” — or “Winter Journey” — the forlorn reflections of a young man who has lost his love to another, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” (“Winter Journey”) is almost relentlessly ...

Like Frederick Douglass, Franz Schubert is an example of somebody who is getting recognized more and more these days, so much so that I was compelled to write about him recently in the magazine—a ...

Hertz Hall was a full house on March 17. The day was no different for world-class musicians and esteemed Schubert players Mark Padmore (vocalist) and Mitsuko Uchida (piano), both with lengthy careers ...

It’s time to return to Winterreise. When it comes to Schubert’s “Winter Journey,” I prefer bass-baritones to tenors for one simple reason. The type of tenor who would sing Winterreise isn’t a voice ...