BERG Lyric Suite SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 (Novus Quartet)

Novus Quartet

Any misapprehensions of Biedermeier gentility are banished by bracingly antiseptic octaves and fifths to open this Death and the Maiden,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 4

Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

Philippe Herreweghe’s previous excursions on disc with Schubert’s symphonies were the Ninth in 2011 and the Sixth and Eighth in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016

SCHUBERT 8 Impromptus

Amir Katz

The sensitivity, tonal refinement and occasional micromanagement typifying Amir Katz’s Chopin Nocturnes, Ballades and Impromptus (Oehms) and Mendelssohn Songs Without...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2016

Benjamin Appl: SCHUBERT Lieder

Benjamin Appl | Graham Johnson

Just a couple of months ago, Richard Fairman welcomed Benjamin Appl’s first fully fledged recital disc, a collection of Heine...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016

SCHUBERT Trout Quintet

Béatrice Muthelet | Delphine Bardin | Orphélie Gaillard | Stéphane Logerot | Yossif Ivanov

This is the kind of disc a reviewer dreads. Why, you might ask? Is it so terrible? Far from it,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

Dessay Sings Schubert

Having admired Natalie Dessay in operatic repertoire ranging from Handel to Massenet and Strauss, I’m sorry not to be more...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017

SCHUBERT 'Ins stille Land' (Signum Quartett)

Signum Quartet

A couple of years ago the Gramophone Awards adopted a category for ‘Concept Album’ – ‘one designed to be heard...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2021

Schubert String Quartet No 15, D887

Medici Quartet

Paul Robertson, in his extended and extremely interesting notes, suggests that such a monumental, complex work as Schubert’s last string...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2002

Schubert Orchestrations by Berio & Joachim

Christoph Eschenbach | Houston Symphony Orchestra

Berio’s Rendering (1989) is a 35-minute orchestral work in which the composer enters into an extended dialogue with the sketches...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1997

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol. 8

Adele Kern | Alda Noni | Anton Dermota | Clemens Krauss | Daniza Ilitsch | Elena Nikolaidi | Esther Réthy | Franz Worff | Georg Hann | Hans Hotter

Here is further proof that Ilitsch was an astonishing Aida, undertaking the part here some 15 months before her 1942...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1995