Perhaps posterity's problem with Schubert is his sheer prodigality. In a career that lasted, even at a most generous estimate, only 18 years, he produced more than 1000 works. If, as Goethe famously ...

The first few seconds of this exciting new disc tell the listener exactly what's coming, as the opening bars of Schubert's Third Symphony explode in a burst of aggressive, ultra-dry timpani underlying ...

Brilliant Classics reissued the complete cycle of Schubert’s symphonies made by Blomstedt and the Dresden Staatskapelle on four CDs at a bargain price. All of the symphonies, and in particular the ...

The symphonies Schubert wrote as a teenager took a long time to reach the public. The Third and Fourth weren't heard complete in public concerts until 1881 and 1849, respectively 53 and 21 years after ...

There wasn’t reason to expect much, in the way of context or ambition, from what ultimately turned out to be Gustavo Dudamel’s extraordinary cycle of Schubert symphonies completed over the weekend ...

On Nov. 19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When ...

While he lived, the schoolmaster’s son Franz Schubert made no great splash in the world. Intimates called him Schwammerl, or Mushroom, supposedly because he was small and round. His occasional travels ...