The Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS) has announced the programming for its 2026 Winter Festival, taking place January ...

Franz Schubert's vacation turned out to be a good time for meeting women and writing music. His "Trout Quintet" was inspired by a patron in the Austrian resort of Speyr. Leif Ove Andsnes is the ...

The 19th annual Schubertiade Festival brings rare performances and musical treasures to venues across the country, including an Israeli premiere of a reconstructed Brahms quintet.

According to background information from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Schubert composed “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”), from which the piano-quintet piece takes its name.

Schubert’s career was marked by admiration for Beethoven and his desire to match the heights achieved by his hero. In his “perfect” Quintet, possibly the best longform piece of chamber music ...

The quintet rehearsal will only begin in the next few days. Should any of these compositions by any chance commend them- selves to you, please let me know.’ Within a couple of months, Schubert was ...

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 ...

Schubert Trout Quintet Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniil Trifonov and others (DG) A delightful drawing, made by one of Schubert’s friends, captures the cosy ambience of the musical evenings they shared ...