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Review of Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Anna Tilbrook | James Gilchrist

Orchid Classics

James Gilchrist’s Wanderer has been around a bit. Not enough to make him weary or wary, far from it –...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2009

Review of Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 6

Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 6

Imogen Cooper

Ottavo

Volume I of Imogen Cooper's pilgrimage through the piano works of Schubert's last six years was reviewed by me in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1992

Review of Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 3

Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 3

Andreas Groethuysen | Yaara Tal

Classical

The third volume of Schubert piano duets from Tal and Groethuysen highlights the astonishing range of this repertoire. Their programme...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Review of Schubert Piano Trio, D929; Notturno

Schubert Piano Trio, D929; Notturno

Hansheinz Schneeberger | Jörg Ewald Dähler | Patrick Demenga | Thomas Demenga

ECM New Series

The E flat Trio is immediately handicapped by the slowest, most ponderous reading of the first movement I’ve encountered, and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1998

Review of SCHUBERT Nacht und Träume

SCHUBERT Nacht und Träume

Accentus Ensemble | Insula Orchestra | Laurence Equilbey | Stanislas de Barbeyrac | Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Erato

A lot of thought has gone into this lovely album of orchestrated Schubert songs, as conductor Laurence Equilbey makes clear in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 21

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 21

Yury Martynov

Melodiya

I’m not sure if these 2006 recordings have previously been released in the West but they provide my first exposure...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

Review of SCHUBERT Songs Vol 4 (Bostridge)

SCHUBERT Songs Vol 4 (Bostridge)

Ian Bostridge | Julius Drake

Wigmore Hall Live

Six months after I reviewed the third volume of Ian Bostridge’s live Schubert series from the Wigmore Hall (12/17), here’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2018

Review of SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14. String Quintet

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14. String Quintet

Cremona Quartet | Eckart Runge

Audite

The particular twist in the Quartetto di Cremona’s coupling of Schubert’s two most popular late string masterpieces is their use...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Music for Violin, Vol 1 (Ariadne Daskalakis)

SCHUBERT Music for Violin, Vol 1 (Ariadne Daskalakis)

Ariadne Daskalakis | Cologne Academy | Michael Alexander Willens | Paolo Giacometti

BIS

Schubert’s music for violin and orchestra doesn’t suffer from over-familiarity in concert and, lasting only about half an hour in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2019

Review of SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 4, 12 & 14 (Quatuor Arod)

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 4, 12 & 14 (Quatuor Arod)

Arod Quartet

Erato

In the mythic language of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Arod – the name given to Legolas’s horse –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2020

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