Franz Schubert occupies a special place in music lovers' hearts, whether for timeless melodies such as Ave Maria and Serenade, ground-breaking piano works such as Wanderer Fantasy and the Impromptus, ...

Vienna, as suggested here last week, has good reason to lay claim to being the musical capital of the world. Its past status at the heart of an empire gave it the cachet of the place to be and the ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Schubert. It’s hard to think of a composer more gregarious than Schubert, and further removed from the image of the reclusive genius, closeted away ...