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

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

A similar sense of awe and admiration enveloped us as we listened to the young Israeli pianist, Roman Abramowitch, play ...

Roderick Williams is counted (in the world of ‘classical’ music, at any rate) as a national treasure, and these days we’re used to his platform appearances in large works. But he first rose to fame ...

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, ...

David Greco and Erin Helyard present the first Australian recording of Schubert’s masterpiece on period instruments Schubert’s Winterreise is one of the greatest song cycles ever written. Completed ...

Joyce DiDonato is by no means the first female singer to wrest Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise from the clutches of the legions of tenors and baritones whose preserve it remained for two centuries ...

Schubert’s “Winterreise, ” or “Winter Journey,” is a song cycle about a young man who, rejected by his beloved, leaves the town in winter. The journey is told in 24 songs, divided into two sets of 12 ...

It's a Sin, how Aids has been depicted in culture, Glastonbury Festival cancellation, London International Mime Festival The White Tiger, the TS Eliot Prize shortlist, sculptor Denise Dutton Jonzi D ...

Flutist Stacey Pelinka doesn’t want to specialize. She prefers to be adventurous and to perform a full spectrum of repertoire, believing different types of music inform one another. As one of the 17 ...

The baritone tackles one of the most challenging works in the Lieder singer's repertoire With Winterreise, Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide complete their recordings for DG of Schubert’s three song ...