Schubert's Instrumental Music: A Listener's Guide

Schubert's Instrumental Music - A Listener's Guide. (Unlocking the Masters Series, No. 19). Amadeus. Softcover with CD. 176 pages. Published by Amadeus Press.

John Bell Young explores some of the richest and most memorable instrumental music ever written. How did this prolific musician compose more than a thousand masterpieces in a career that spanned less than two decades? Young's colorful analysis of a Schubert's greatest orchestral, piano and chamber works deftly illuminates these issues. The accompanying CD features superb performances by Claudio Arrau.