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Schubert Lieder & Chamber Works
Ann Mackay | Christopher Craker | Prometheus Ensemble | Schubert Ensemble of London | Yitkin Seow
A glance at the selected comparisons listed above will immediately indicate that the CD catalogue is already well served with...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1990
Schubert/Wolf Goethe Lieder
Sophie Koch may have won her spurs in opera, including appearances as Rosina and Dorabella at Covent Garden. But a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1999
Schubert Symphony No 9
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
A ''heart-breaking show of spirit in adversity'' is how Tovey describes the solitary oboe at the start of the Symphony's...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1992
SCHUBERT Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux
This is something special and I urge everyone interested in the discography of Schubert’s piano music to hear it. Unsure...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 & 9
Philippe Jordan | Vienna Symphony Orchestra
If the documentation didn’t suggest otherwise, one might be forgiven for thinking that these performances were the work of, if...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015
SCHUBERT Sonatas & Impromptus (Schiff)
Here’s an analogy for András Schiff’s second disc in his survey of Schubert’s late works on his Brodmann fortepiano. Imagine...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 8 (de Vriend)
(The) Hague Residentie Orchestra | Jan Willem de Vriend
It barely feels as long ago as February that the first volume in Jan Willem de Vriend’s Schubert symphony cycle...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019
SCHUBERT Late Piano Sonatas (Francesco Piemontesi)
Francesco Piemontesi presents here Schubert’s last three sonatas, all recorded in February 2018 in the same Swiss venue, though the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2019
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Vols 1 & 2 (Llŷr Williams)
Llŷr Williams’s first commercial disc – an all-Chopin selection including the Preludes – Quartz, 8/06) – received quite harsh criticism...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2020
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21 (Dina Ugorskaja)
I doubt if the teacher who once banned the 23-year-old me from playing Schubert’s last piano sonata because she thought...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2020
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