Not everything a great composer writes is always great music. Everyone has a hit rate and these vary from genius to genius. Even by Schubert’s own standards, though, the Adagio from the String Quintet ...

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, ...

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 ...

Valentin Erben (cello), Belcea Quartet EMI Classics 967 0252 (2 CDs)***** An on-form Belcea Quartet here offer Schubert's last three chamber works for strings, the great C major String Quintet, the ...

Franz Schubert never heard his Quintet in C; he composed it in September of 1828. On November 19, he died. He would have been pleased by last night’s performance in Meyerhoff Hall on the next-to-last ...

It must have been disappointing. Franz Schubert could not get anyone interested in publishing his monumental String Quintet in C major, now considered one of the greatest pieces in the chamber music ...

Franz Schubert's last chamber piece, the String Quintet in C major (D. 956), is one of the most sublime pieces in the repertoire. It is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello. The ...

In this bittersweet music, Schubert added an extra cello to the standard string quartet, and in the process created a completely new sound for a... Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet In C ...