Franz Schubert

Schubert's D-minor quartet takes its familiar name from the slow movement, whose variations use material from his song Death and the Maiden. That quotation sits within a four-movement work of forceful rhythms and...

Schubert's B-minor symphony has two completed movements whose balance has made them a familiar concert work. A dark low-string opening leads into lyrical themes with distinctive wind colors, while the second movement...

Schubert's Great C-major symphony opens with a horn melody whose material becomes part of a much larger orchestral argument. Its four movements sustain unusual breadth through recurrent rhythms, long melodic spans,...

Schubert wrote his Fifth Symphony for modest orchestral forces, omitting clarinets, trumpets and timpani. Its four movements reflect his admiration for Mozart while retaining Schubert's own melodic and harmonic...