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Schubert for Two
The printed interview accompanying this disc finds both musicians defensive about the lightweight nature of much of their programme. Why?...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2005
Knappertsbusch conducts Schubert & Weber
Cologne Radio Orchestra | Hans Knappertsbusch | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Second Symphony (1970, rev. 1995) is one of Aho’s most closely argued, a dark-hued, compelling series of three linked...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
Schubert String Quartet, D810
The playing is both highly competent and agreeably sensitive. Some may find too many expressive changes of tempo in the...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
Schubert Piano Sonatas, D784 & D958
Ever since his second prize at the London World Piano Competition in 1994‚ Paul Lewis has been garnering golden opinions...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Voices of our time – Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge | Roger Vignoles
At the beginning of this carefully planned recital, and spatchcocked between each group, both singer and pianist talk in general...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2004
Schubert Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6
The A minor Sonata emerges as the more arresting of the two in this sixth volume of Kuerti's Schubert cycle....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1993
Schubert Piano Works
Maria João Pires | Ricardo Castro
Here is a typically imaginative programme from Maria João Pires, sharing the limelight with Ricardo Castro (who briefly made headlines...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2005
SCHUBERT Symphony No 9
Antonello Manacorda | Potsdam Chamber Academy
‘Lean of tone and impetuous’ is how Richard Wigmore described Antonello Manacorda’s coupling of Schubert’s Third and Eighth symphonies with...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
SCHUBERT Die Nacht. Arpeggione Sonata
Anja Lechner | Duo KeMi | Pablo Márquez
The arpeggione was a hybrid instrument, smooth-waisted, tuned and fretted like guitar but bowed like a viola da gamba. Invented...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 19-21 (Lonquich)
It seems everything needs a theme these days, so here we have from Alexander Lonquich Schubert’s last piano works in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2019
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