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Review of Schubert Piano Duet Works

Schubert Piano Duet Works

Alexandre Tharaud | Zhu Xiao-Mei

Harmonia Mundi

By any reckoning, works such as these are among Schubert’s major compositions for the piano, yet while recordings of the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/2003

Review of Schubert Winterreise (film version)

Schubert Winterreise (film version)

David Alden | Ian Bostridge | Julius Drake

NVC Arts

This dramatisation by David Alden of Schubert’s final cycle, and the programme that showed its preparation, were broadcast on Channel...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

Review of Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.31

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.31

Catherine Denley | Catherine Wyn-Rogers | Christine Brewer | Graham Johnson | Holst Singers | Lorna Anderson | Patricia Rozario | Paul Robinson | Stephen Layton

Hyperion

This volume will mainly interest those who are collecting Hyperion’s Schubert Edition as a whole, for by and large the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1998

Review of Schubert Octet

Schubert Octet

Andrew Marriner | Berlin Soloists | Chilingirian Quartet | Felix Warnock | Jonathan Williams | Thomas Martin

Eminence

Before making their Teldec recording the Berlin Soloists went back to Schubert's autograph manuscript, and discovered numerous discrepancies between this...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Review of Schubert String Quintet

Schubert String Quintet

Alban Berg Qt | Heinrich Schiff

EMI

EMI, although late-comers to the CD arena, are going to be more than welcome if they give us recordings of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1984

Review of Schubert Piano Sonatas

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Mark Swartzentruber

Classical

The C minor Sonata, and especially its first movement, is often hailed as Schubert at his most Beethovenian. But as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1994

Review of Schubert Lieder Recital

Schubert Lieder Recital

Jenö Jandó | Tamara Takács

Naxos

No texts are supplied, but Keith Anderson's insert-notes follow the programme from song to song, briefly outlining the subject-matter of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Review of Schubert Winterreise

Schubert Winterreise

Jos van Immerseel | Max van Egmond

Channel Classics

Listening to this work and this performance while looking out on a bleak winter landscape in Suffolk could hardly have...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1992

Review of Schubert Piano Sonatas Nos 4 and 13; Wanderer Fantasy

Schubert Piano Sonatas Nos 4 and 13; Wanderer Fantasy

Eldar Nebolsin

Naxos

This is a disc that ranges far, from Schubert at his most gemütlich (the first movement of the A major...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 8/2011

Review of Schubert Sakontala, D701

Schubert Sakontala, D701

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Frieder Bernius | Stuttgart Chamber Choir

Carus

Buoyed by the modest success of Die Zwillingsbrüder in 1819, Schubert set his sights on more ambitious operatic projects. But...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2008

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