Does anyone listen to Franz Schubert?

We were able to sit very close, and it made me realise how important it is to hear chamber music live. It was written for a group of people interacting with one another: you need a sense of that. Schubert mixes the light and the dark more subtly than any other composer. read more

Yes I started listening to Franz schubert after I found out about him in a book “ Kafka on the shore”. Murakami(the author) has a great taste in music and always finds his way to share it through his characters. read more

Schubert's song cycle Winterreise is one of the essential works of classical music and a work I have loved for many years. I respond to this cycle of lost love whenever I return to it. Written in the last year of Schubert's life, Winterreise is a setting for solo voice and piano of 24 poems by Wilhelm Muller. read more