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Viennese Miniatures
‘Lanner, Strauss and their waltzes dominate everything,’ wrote Chopin from Vienna in 1830. Not so much these days. If Johann...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016
Schubert Live, Vol 3
It is difficult to know what to say about these two discs without repeating the comments I made in my...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2010
Elisabeth Schumann sings Schubert Lieder
Schumann in Schubert, ever welcome; as it was on 78s and LPs, is now on CD and, I trust, ever...
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Schubert Lieder
Bostridge’s growing band of devoted admirers are sure to be satisfied by this selection from Schubert’s most popular songs. They...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1998
Schubert Works for Piano Duet
Christoph Eschenbach | Justus Frantz
Throughout his life Schubert was drawn to the piano duet more than any other great composer, partly for practical reasons...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2006
Schubert Works for Violin & Piano
Elisabeth Westenholz | Nikolai Madojan
Schubert’s limited output for piano and violin is well represented here by the delightful lyricism of the early, occasionally bold...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998
Schubert Schwanengesang
Dietrich Henschel | Fritz Schwinghammer
Like other baritones before him, Dietrich Henschel does not take naturally to the lighter Rellstab songs in Schwanengesang. His water-borne...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2009
Schubert/Goldmark String Quartets
The ''Rosamunde'' Quartet, D804 offers a particularly eloquent example of the peculiar poignancy with which Schubert exploited the expressive potential...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata
Alexandre Tharaud | Jean-Guihen Queyras
This programme covers similar ground to Anne Gastinel and Claire Désert’s Schubert recital, which likewise includes the Arpeggione Sonata and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2006
Schubert Schwanengesang
Mark Padmore | Paul Lewis | Richard Watkins
The close creative partnership between Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis is immediately heard in the opening “Liebesbotschaft”, Schubert’s last, and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2011
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