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Schubert Symphonies
London Classical Players | Roger Norrington
Visually arresting as it was, in the recent BBC TV investigation ''The Real Thing'', to see Boulez denouncing period performance...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1990
Schubert Piano Sonatas
Elisabeth Leonskaja's approach to Schubert's two very different A major sonatas is much more subjectively searching, less objectively classical, than...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1993
Schubert Piano sonatas
The instrument here is by the Viennese maker Johann Fritz and dates from about 1814. It is one of the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/1985
The Spanish Guitar (1536-1836)
The two discs are collectively titled ‘The Spanish Guitar (1536-1918)’ and thus cover the evolution of the modern instrument from...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2001
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
Aribert Reimann | Brigitte Fassbaender
It grieves me to report that what may well be the last new recording by Fassbaender, because of her retirement,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1995
SCHUBERT String Quintet. String Quartet No 14, ‘Death and the Maiden’
Danjulo Ishizaka | Pavel Haas Quartet
This is good. Very good. Acclaim and the Pavel Haas Quartet are familiar bedfellows – after all, they did win...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 18
Janina Fialkowska has a palpable vision of how these two different sonatas should work, making them very much her own....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2014
SCHUBERT Der Wanderer and other songs
Florian Boesch | Roger Vignoles
Florian Boesch is the kind of baritone who, once heard, makes you want to hear him in any and all...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014
SCHUBERT Moments Musicaux. Piano Sonata No 20
Shai Wosner muses in his booklet essay on the notion of Schubert and time, observing that often the composer’s short...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015
SCHUBERT Fantasie Sonata. Hungarian Melody
I wish there were more CDs of Schubert’s piano music like this – a well-planned programme but also a recital...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015
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