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Review of Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 3

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 3

Ann Murray | Graham Johnson

Schubert Edition

It certainly seems as if one of the lasting pleasures of the Schubert Edition, of which this is the latest...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 17

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 17

Benjamin Hochman

Avie

Benjamin Hochman’s Avie solo debut frames two fascinating and relatively unfamiliar contemporary Schubert tributes between two frequently recorded Schubert sonatas....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

Review of Schubert Orchestral Works

Schubert Orchestral Works

Herbert Blomstedt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Decca

What has happened to Decca's San Francisco sound? To sample, say, their recent Hindemith Nobilissima Visione (4193) and Mendelssohn Italian...

Reviewed by Jonathan Swain in issue: 10/1993

Review of SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

David Zinman | Roger Norrington | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

Red Seal

David Zinman and his expert band give predictably athletic, tightly disciplined performances of two contrasting early Schubert symphonies: the blithe,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012

Review of Schubert Symphonies

Schubert Symphonies

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Günter Wand

Red Seal

The advantages of these new Berlin readings (with, incidentally, some of the best recorded sound I’ve heard from the Philharmonie)...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1996

Review of SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 15

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 15

Cuarteto Casals

It might have been a terrifying set of hurdles in its time; but if today’s quartets are not awed by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012

Review of Schubert String Quintet, D 956; Quartet, D703

Schubert String Quintet, D 956; Quartet, D703

David Watkin | Tokyo String Quartet

Harmonia Mundi USA

From tempestuousness to rumination and all things in between; it’s a palette of feelings that requires to be confronted in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2012

Review of Schubert Octet

Schubert Octet

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Philips

For some reason less interesting chamber works by Schubert get recorded far more often than the wholly delightful Octet, the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Review of Schubert Octet

Schubert Octet

Hausmusik

Reflexe

Hausmusik play on period instruments, though they do not say which period—that is, whether the instruments are of the mid-1820s...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1991

Review of Schubert Symphony 9

Schubert Symphony 9

Hanover Band | London Classical Players | Roger Norrington | Roy Goodman

Nimbus

Both these performances of Schubert's Great C major Symphony (in fact so called to distinguish it from the Little C...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1990

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