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Review of SCHUBERT String Quartets, D810 and D173

SCHUBERT String Quartets, D810 and D173

Chiaroscuro

BIS

‘Immer zu! Ohne Rast und Ruh’ – ‘Ever onwards, without respite’: these words from Schubert’s turbulent Goethe setting ‘Rastlose Liebe’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018

Review of SCHUBERT et al Trouts

SCHUBERT et al Trouts

Janulo Ishizaka | Lena Neudauer | Rick Stotijn | Silke Avenhaus | Wen Xiao Zheng

Avi

An international ensemble perform Schubert’s evergreen quintet for piano and strings, and surround it with the ‘Trout Project’ – a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, Vols 3 & 4 (Llŷr Williams)

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, Vols 3 & 4 (Llŷr Williams)

Llŷr Williams

Signum Classics

Michelle Assay’s harsh yet accurate observations concerning Llŷr Williams’s initial Schubert volumes (2/20) sometimes mirror my mixed responses to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

Review of SCHUBERT 'The Fair Maid of the Mill'

SCHUBERT 'The Fair Maid of the Mill'

Christopher Glynn | Nicky Spence

Signum Classics

Nearly four years since Signum’s release of Schubert’s Winter Journey (5/18) and Swan Song (11/18), we get on to the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D959 & D960 (Dong Hyek Lim)

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D959 & D960 (Dong Hyek Lim)

Dong Hyek Lim

Warner Classics

Dong Hyek Lim’s Schubert is pianistically proficient, if not consistently enlivening from a musical standpoint. In the A major opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

Review of SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 (Blomstedt. Jacobs)

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 (Blomstedt. Jacobs)

B'Rock | Herbert Blomstedt | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | René Jacobs

Deutsche Grammophon

Here’s an exercise in comparisons, and not necessarily the ones you might expect. Herbert Blomstedt makes his DG debut at...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022

Review of Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid (Sergei Kvitko)

Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid (Sergei Kvitko)

Sergei Kvitko

Reference Recordings

Pianist Sergei Kvitko’s booklet notes discuss at great length the conception and evolution of this all-Schubert programme centred around the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

Review of SCHUBERT Winterreise (Richard Resch)

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Richard Resch)

Diego Caetano | Richard Resch

Da Vinci Classics

Regensburg-born tenor Richard Resch’s debut album – a selection of early Baroque cantatas from north Germany – received a warm...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW23

Review of Schubert Lieder

Schubert Lieder

Edith Wiens | Joaquin Valdepeñas | Rudolf Jansen

Musica Viva

Edith Wiens's fresh tone and well-nigh faultless technique makes everything here sound so easy that one might be lulled into...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1993

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