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Review of Schubert String Quartets, Vol. 8

Schubert String Quartets, Vol. 8

Andreas Seidel | Leipzig Quartet | Tilmann Büning

Dabringhaus und Grimm

These are spacious, fine-toned performances of two of the four quartets Schubert wrote in his 17th year. The Leipzig Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Review of Schubert Octet; Adagio & Rondo concertante

Schubert Octet; Adagio & Rondo concertante

Melos Ensemble

Studio

In 1967 EMI's engineers gave the Melos Ensemble a fairly close, rather artificial studio balance to solve the usual problems...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Review of Schubert Divertissements

Schubert Divertissements

Alexei Lubimov | Andreas Staier

Teldec (Warner Classics)

Schubert’s Divertissement a la hongroise, his most flamboyant essay in the Hungarian vernacular style, has always overshadowed the Divertissement on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1998

Review of Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 5

Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 5

Harvey Dagul | Isabel Beyer

Four Hands Music

This experienced husband-and-wife duo have already recorded four volumes in this series of Schubert's piano duets, and now here is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1995

Review of Schubert Two String Quartets

Schubert Two String Quartets

Takács Quartet

Hungaroton

The Takacs are a young Hungarian quartet of considerable promise, with, among other things, fine recordings of the quartets Bartok...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Review of Schubert Winterreise

Schubert Winterreise

Inger Södergren | Nathalie Stutzmann

Calliope

Can it be 16 years since Brigitte Fassbaender recorded with Aribert Reimann her utterly memorable account of this cycle, one...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2004

Review of Schubert Octet

Schubert Octet

Daniel Stepner | David Miller | Dennis Godburn | Eric Hoeprich | Linda Quan | Lowell Greer | Michael Willens | Myron Lutzke

Harmonia Mundi

There is something not absolutely right about the first sustained note of the Octet as played here, the clarinet's intonation...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Review of Schubert String Quartets Nos 10 & 14

Schubert String Quartets Nos 10 & 14

Henschel Qt

Classics

For once the encomiums on the jewel-case are largely justified. The Henschel Quartet may be slightly too ready to relax...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999

Review of Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 2

Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 2

Harvey Dagul | Isabel Beyer

Four Hands Music

This is a disc to investigate for the light that it sheds on Schubertian byways and for the thoughtful and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Review of Schubert Trout Quintet

Schubert Trout Quintet

Alban Berg Qt | Alban Berg Quartet | Elisabeth Leonskaja | Georg Hörtnagel

EMI

One could call this Trout pointless and leave it at that. But it seems a damned cheek to dismiss artists...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

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