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SCHUBERT; SZYMANOWSKI Piano Sonatas
The swirl of publicity that surrounded Lucas Debargue as the fourth-place winner of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition brought tremendous pressure...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018
SCHUBERT A Soprano’s Schubertiade
Carolyn Sampson | Joseph Middleton
Every new repertoire frontier in Carolyn Sampson’s growing body of solo recordings – that so regularly turn up in the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2018
SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 14 (Van Kuijk Quartet)
The surface finish of these performances by the Van Kuijk Quartet is astonishing, and particularly so given the quartet formed...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
SCHUBERT Winterreise (Bo Skovhus)
Not usually a paragon of moderation or elegance, Bo Skovhus has continued his traversal of Schubert Lieder with a Winterreise...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2018
SCHUBERT Winterreise (Voyager Quartet)
Schubert’s music never lies far from the arranger’s pen – whether it be the composer himself, apotheosing songs for his...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2020
SCHUBERT Octet (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Soloists)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
While clarinettists and violinists – horn players, too – may disagree, Schubert’s hedonistic Octet has always seemed to me virtually...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
SCHUBERT String Quartets D112; 887
In an interesting booklet note for this formidably competitive release, Richard Wigmore remarks, concerning the epic Quartet No 15 in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024
Haydn (The) Creation
Three years after its recording, the release of the Kubelik Creation is something of a non-event. In terms of resources,...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1988
MOZART Lucio Silla (Minkowski)
Although this production of the teenage Mozart’s Lucia Silla was first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2013, it was...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018
Ashley Riches: A Musical Zoo
Ashley Riches | Joseph Middleton
The first thing one needs to know about ‘A Musical Zoo’ is that bass-baritone Ashley Riches, the album’s instigator, is...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2021
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