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SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
David Zinman | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
He’s cultivated and urbane. David Zinman coasts along feeling no undercurrents within No 5. For him, Schubert remains the teenager...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2013
SCHUBERT Lieder Volume 7: Erlkönig
Andreas Haefliger | Matthias Goerne
More than any other singer, Matthias Goerne conjures a Schubert who once allegedly said of himself, ‘Sometimes it seems as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013
SCHUBERT Symphony No 6
Antonello Manacorda | Potsdam Chamber Academy | Roger Norrington | SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Sixth is the most egregious of Schubert’s eight symphonies. With an opening movement which could pass muster as one...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2013
Schubert String Quintet
Where other quartets may emphasize the struggle (Takacs) or the song (Hagen) within Schubert's C major Quintet, the Orpheus, with...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1995
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 8
Chorus | Graham Johnson | Sarah Walker
The amazing originality of Schubert as a song-writer is wholly adumbrated in An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht where the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990
Schubert Piano Sonata, D845; Moments musicaux, D780
The sleeve-note tells us we're listening to a Bechstein Boudior Grand from the latter half of the nineteenth century, chosen...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata D960. Drei Klavierstücke (Ayako Ito)
For more than two decades Ayako Ito has been performing on period pianos, such as the one built by Christopher...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Gerald Finley)
After Winterreise (4/14) and Schwanengesang (A/19), Gerald Finley and Julius Drake arrive at Die schöne Müllerin. As with the previous...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D537, 568 & 664 (Paul Lewis)
For the last instalment of his Schubert survey, recorded over 20 years, Paul Lewis has chosen three earlyish sonatas. The...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2022
SCHUBERT Mass No 6 (Welser-Möst)
Recordings of Schubert’s sacred music don’t exactly grow on trees, and even though his final Mass is perhaps the best-known...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023
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