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SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin. Schwanengesang. Winterreise (Christoph Prégardien)
Andreas Staier | Christoph Prégardien | Michael Gees
In the vast Schubert lieder discography, one looks to Fritz Wunderlich for mystique, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for authority and Ian Bostridge...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021
Four Visions of France: Fauré, Honegger, Lalo, Saint-Saëns Cello Concertos (Daniel Müller-Schott)
Alexandre Bloch | Berlin German Symphony Orchestra
Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto is often seen as something of a Cinderella opus, forever in the shadow of the Dvořák...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW21
Wagner (Die) Fliegende Holländer
This is almost as important a document as the Onegin from the same source reviewed above. As with that issue,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003
Adès; Schubert Piano Quintets
Alasdair Tait | Arditti Qt | Corin Long | Corina Belcea | Krzysztof Chorzelski | Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès features both as composer and pianist on this new release: two piano quintets which, though composed 182 years...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2005
Schubert Kennst du das Land!
Arthur Schoonderwoerd | Johannette Zomer
The young Dutch soprano Johannette Zomer has a voice of a strikingly individual quality. How to describe it? Perhaps the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004
Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin
Christian Elsner | Ulrich Eisenlohr
Elsner possesses a sappy, evenly produced tenor, allowing more heroic effects in the more forceful songs than some of his...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000
Schubert Piano Trio No. 2, D929
I like the story, quoted in the sleeve-note here, of Stravinsky being asked if Schubert's prolixities did not put him...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984
Schubert: Works for Piano Duet
Jörg Demus | Paul Badura-Skoda
Besides the two Rondos in A and D, the three Marches militaires and the F minor Fantasia included by Pires...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1990
Schubert Orchestrated
American Symphony Orchestra | Leon Botstein
Perhaps it is unfair to wonder as to the point of this programme, but I can’t help asking myself what...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1996
Schubert Winterreise
One of the very first complete recordings of Winterreise was by a woman. After Lotte Lehmann’s pioneering performance in the...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1998
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