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Review of SCHUBERT Swansong (Tomlinson)

SCHUBERT Swansong (Tomlinson)

Alec Frank-Gemmill | Christopher Glynn | John Tomlinson | Julian Bliss | Sophie Bevan

Signum

I was a little guarded perhaps in my reaction to Signum’s release of ‘Winter Journey’ (5/18), and for ‘Swan Song’...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018

Review of SCHUBERT Heimweh Songs (Anna Lucia Richter)

SCHUBERT Heimweh Songs (Anna Lucia Richter)

Anna Lucia Richter | Gerold Huber | Matthias Schorn

Pentatone

Anna Lucia Richter’s singing of the bittersweet ‘An den Mond’ – gentle, inward, the ornaments gracefully etched – immediately reveals...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Octet (Faust et al)

SCHUBERT Octet (Faust et al)

Anne Katharina Schreiber | Danusha Waskiewicz | Isabelle Faust | James Munro | Javier Zafra | Kristin von der Goltz | Lorenzo Coppola | Teunis Van der Zwart

Harmonia Mundi

As the cover billing suggests, Isabelle Faust is very much the guiding light in this period-instrument Octet. Yet her creative...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2018

Review of Schubertiade

Schubertiade

Anima Eterna Brugge | Jos van Immerseel

Alpha

This is the second release on Alpha to celebrate the 70th birthday of Jos van Immerseel. The first was a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016

Review of SCHUBERT Works for Four Hands

SCHUBERT Works for Four Hands

Jan Vermeulen | Veerle Peeters

Etcetera

I didn’t manage to catch Vol 1 of Jan Vermeulen and Veerle Peeters’s Schubert duets series, nor have I heard...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016

Review of SCHUBERT Symphony No 9

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9

Christoph von Dohnányi | Philharmonia Orchestra

Signum Classics

This is more a clinician’s view of the Schubert’s Great C major Symphony than a poet’s; less an act of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2016

Review of SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (Emelyanychev)

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (Emelyanychev)

Maxim Emelyanychev | Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Linn

David Zinman led the way; now here is Maxim Emelyanychev waltzing through the ‘Great’ C major with all the repeats...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

Review of SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. Klavierstück D946 No 2

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. Klavierstück D946 No 2

Michel Dalberto | Stephan Genz

Aparte

A couple of years ago Stephan Genz and Michel Dalberto released a Winterreise that was welcomed in these pages by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017

Review of SCHUBERT Songs Vol 3 (Bostridge)

SCHUBERT Songs Vol 3 (Bostridge)

Ian Bostridge | Julius Drake

Wigmore Hall Live

The third volume of Ian Bostridge’s leisurely Schubert series for Wigmore Hall Live is devoted to songs dealing with longing – urgent,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

Review of SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus. Moments Musicaux

SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus. Moments Musicaux

Lars Vogt

Ondine

There’s surprisingly little solo Schubert in Lars Vogt’s discography, so this Ondine disc is welcome. What it reveals, however, is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

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