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Happy Monday. Herbst Ludwig Rellstab  Es rauschen die Winde So herbstlich und kalt; Verödet die Fluren, Entblätter...

Listening to Christoph Prégardien singing Lieder by Mahler, Schubert and Schumann the other night at the Wimbledon International Music Festi...

Barenboim in concert at the RFH. Photo: Chris Christodoulou Yes, it's him again. Them. Barenboim and that piano. I reviewed the fina...

I was kind of underwhelmed by Barenboim's approach to Schubert yesterday, sorry to say. But his bespoke piano sounds terrific. Here...

Ever wondered why we don't hear Schubert's operas more often? Occasional extracts, recorded by the likes of Jonas Kaufmann and Chr...

The great violinist Jelly d'Arányi, muse to Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Bartók and many other composers (maybe even Elgar), was born on thi...

OK, it's not much to do with Schubert, the trip tomorrow. It's the Beethovenfest in Bonn and Andras will be playing a programme of...

The other day I was out for a walk in Richmond Park and I spotted a pair of shoes abandoned next to a B ä chlein . While I doubt that Schu...

T'other day I was out shopping when the girl behind the counter, returning my credit card, handed me a gift of a Christmas cracker cover...

I've been talking to Daniel Barenboim and his violinist son, Michael , about their burgeoning dynasty. They're respectively conduct...

Just a few weeks back on JDCMB we asked "WHY SCHUBERT?" It turns out that BBC Radio 3 had decided to ask that too. They're do...

The ace violist Maxim Rysanov sent me this after the Schubert post went up yesterday. In his project 'Looking for Schubert' he'...

There are a few pieces of music that I try not to hear too often, since they are so powerful they keep me up at night. Most of them are by S...