Jordan Pyle presents her group's findings on the music of Franz Schubert during the College of Music Scholarship Celebration and Dinner on Oct. 5. The search for the “why” in a handful of Schubert ...
With Symphony Center rationing song recitals as if they were flu shots, it’s all the more important that the few we do get to hear are of the highest quality and performed by the most important ...
His Schubert is never less than fascinating, but 2011's Winterreise kept its distance, while last night there were more question marks hovering over a Schubertiade of mostly semi-precious stones and ...
"Schubert 200", so heißt ein Projekt des Baritons Samuel Hasselhorn und des Pianisten Ammiel Bushakevitz. Die Jahre 1823 bis 1828 - also die letzten Lebensjahre Franz Schuberts - waren auch seine ...
Eine Ode an die Sinnlichkeit, ein Lob auf Zartheit, Schönheit, Milde! Dabei könnte Franz Schuberts Lied „An Silvia“ leicht kitschig wirken, betrachtet man nur die deutsche Übersetzung dieses ...
The first was a composer, the second a playwright. One was Austrian, the other an itinerant Paris-dwelling Irishman. And their lives never quite overlapped: The first died a year after Beethoven ...
Christine Schafer’s Chicago-area recital debut Tuesday in Ravinia’s Martin Theatre broadened and deepened the positive impression the German soprano made just over a year ago when she first sang ...
Way back in 1982, Jessye Norman told an interviewer that she would still like to be singing song recitals when she reached the age of 60. That once-distant milestone is now a mere 4 1/2 years ...
Man könnte den zweiten "Musikalischen Salon", den der Wiener Bariton Georg Nigl am späten Donnerstagabend beim Musikfest im Kaminsaal des Rathauses gab, einfach als einen der viel zu selten gewordenen ...
David Denby, in his fine eulogy of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, mentions the difficulty he has relating to the lied repertoire, thanks to “all the plangent aestheticism” of the German Romantic poetry on ...