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Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21

Krystian Zimerman

Deutsche Grammophon

It has been a long, long time since Krystian Zimerman’s last solo recording. Think back to his Gramophone Award-winning Debussy...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Trios (Trio Vitruvi)

SCHUBERT Piano Trios (Trio Vitruvi)

Trio Vitruvi

Bridge

This debut recording by the Trio Vitruvi leaves me frankly perplexed. On the one hand, I’m impressed by these young...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 19

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 19

Louis Schwizgebel

Aparte

It seems strange that my first thought on hearing Louis Schwizgebel’s Schubert was that it feels insufficiently Beethovenian – or...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

Review of SCHUBERT Late Piano Works Vol 1 (Andrea Lucchesini)

SCHUBERT Late Piano Works Vol 1 (Andrea Lucchesini)

Andrea Lucchesini

Audite

The first volume in Andrea Lucchesini’s projected survey of Schubert’s late piano works cheats a bit by including the relatively...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Winterreise (Bostridge & Adès)

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Bostridge & Adès)

Ian Bostridge

Pentatone

It’s over 15 years since Ian Bostridge released his EMI recording of Schubert’s final song-cycle and the intervening years have...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

Review of SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

Geoffrey Parsons | Wolfgang Holzmair

Wigmore Hall Live

Wolfgang Holzmair’s 1999 recording of Die schöne Müllerin with Imogen Cooper has long been admired for its freshness and expressive...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015

Review of Carlo Grante plays Schubert

Carlo Grante plays Schubert

Carlo Grante

Music & Arts

For this disc, recorded in Vienna in 2013, Carlo Grante chose a superbly maintained 1923 Bösendorfer Imperial, loaned by Eva...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Sonatinas for Violin and Piano

SCHUBERT Sonatinas for Violin and Piano

Callino Quartet | Daniel Tong | Sara Trickey

Champs Hill

Summing up much of what came before and predicting some of what was to come, Schubert’s three sonatinas for violin...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

Review of SCHUBERT Valses nobles. Valses sentimentales

SCHUBERT Valses nobles. Valses sentimentales

Guillaume Coppola

Eloquentia

Initial enthusiasm for a record largely devoted to Schubert dances is easily dampened if the performances are insufficiently vital, affectionate...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

Daniel-Ben Pienaar

Avie

Whether or not Daniel-Ben Pienaar intends for you to proceed through his Schubert sonata cycle’s five discs in sucession, the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021

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