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Review of Schubert Lieder

Schubert Lieder

Eric Hoeprich | Melvyn Tan | Nancy Argenta

Reflexe

Nancy Argenta gives so much of her time and energy to earlier and later music that we are only seldom...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1991

Review of Stella x Schubert

Stella x Schubert

Henry Kramer | Stella Chen

Platoon

The piano’s mysteriously, sensuously quivering pianissimo tremolo on to which is spun a long, slowly unfurling violin half-melody, the whole...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023

Review of SCHUBERT Winterreise (Cyrille Dubois)

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Cyrille Dubois)

Anne Le Bozec | Cyrille Dubois

No Mad Music

After the Gramophone Award-winning success of his superb complete Fauré (Aparté, 8/22), my expectations for this recording by Cyrille Dubois...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2024

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 19. Impromptus D935. Rondo D951 (Aimi Kobayashi)

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 19. Impromptus D935. Rondo D951 (Aimi Kobayashi)

Aimi Kobayashi | Kyohei Sorita

Warner Classics

Aimi Kobayashi is not a pianist who leaves details to chance. Although she’s hardly a micromanager or fussbudget, her propensity...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2025

Review of Schubert Symphony No 9

Schubert Symphony No 9

Günter Wand | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Profil

The opening horn call coming from a point extreme right seems like a proclamation from a lone sentry atop a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2007

Review of Schubert: Lieder

Schubert: Lieder

Austrian Radio Chorus | Christa Ludwig | Irwin Gage

Galleria

The two LPs from which the CDs here derive were made a year apart, in the summers of 1973 and...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Review of Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 3

Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 3

Imogen Cooper

Ottavo

Who would ever guess that in the two years before writing the D major Sonata in 1825, Schubert, seriously ill,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1989

Review of Schubert String Quartets

Schubert String Quartets

Tokyo Qt

Red Seal

''Very smooth and gentle'' was how the painter, Moritz von Schwind, described Schubert's A minor Quartet after its premiere in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1988

Review of Schubert Orchestral Works

Schubert Orchestral Works

Charles Groves | English Sinfonia

Classics

What a variable cycle this is turning out to be—the excellence of the sound being the only consistent factor. Though...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1992

Review of Schubert String Quartet, D887; Notturno, D897

Schubert String Quartet, D887; Notturno, D897

András Fejér | Andreas Haefliger | Edward Dusinberre | Takács Quartet

Decca

The Takacs Quartet make their first offering to Schubert year: the distinctive character of their new recording of the final...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1997

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