Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

Time stands still in Schubert’s String Quintet. Abstracted, other-worldly, this is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, its surface stillness made tangible by the Quatuor Ebène and cellist ...

Two recent performances of Franz Schubert’s sublime String Quintet in C Major provided an opportunity to test a common presumption in the classical-music business: that older performers invariably ...

If you're fond of César Franck's piano quintet and wondered if anyone else ever wrote another work in the same spirit, you'll be delighted to discover the 1917 quintet by Franck's pupil, Gabriel ...

While the Takács work their way through the core chamber repertoire for Hyperion, the Goldner, the other great quartet on the label's books, explores its fringes, often in partnership with pianist ...

A century after the composer’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet were premiered, the Brodsky Quartet return them to the spotlight In May 1919, the first public performances of Elgar’s String Quartet ...

Quintet for Piano and Strings Paavali Jumppanen, Piano César Franck, Composer Danel Quartet These performances by the Quatuor Danel are deftly poised on a knife’s edge between sensuousness and rigour, ...

Coming in at No 3 behind Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s C major String Quintet of 1828 has long been a favourite on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, ...