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SCHUBERT Winterreise
The affecting, chilling bleakness of ‘Gute Nacht’ immediately suggests that this is going to be a Winterreise of vision and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
SCHUBERT String Quintet
Kuijken Quartet | Michel Boulanger
You might well assume that the name ‘Kuijken’ would mean this is a period-instrument account of Schubert’s mighty Quintet. But...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015
SCHUBERT String Quintet & String Trio (Aviv Quartet)
Why did the string trio of violin, viola and cello never really catch on as a genre? Mozart, having written...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2020
SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 5 (Barry Douglas)
Reviewers often resort to the cliché ‘granitic’ when describing an interpretation that pursues a direct, unswerving course and conveys an...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
SCHUBERT Overtures and Orchestral Works (Holliger)
Basel Chamber Orchestra | Heinz Holliger
How best to respond to a musical fragment? The musicologist’s approach is to order the sketches as coherently as possible,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 4, 5 & 8 (Jacobs; Holliger)
B’Rock Orchestra | Basel Chamber Orchestra | Heinz Holliger | René Jacobs
One commodity that is never in short supply in René Jacobs and B’Rock’s Schubert symphony survey is excitement. Period strings...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2021
SCHUBERT Impromptus D899. Moments Musicaux D780 (Alexandre Tharaud)
If, like me, you were enraptured by Michael Haneke’s 2012 Palme d’Or-winning film Amour, then this disc should come to...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2021
SCHUBERT Piano Trio D929 (Hamlet Piano Trio)
The booklet is an oddity, describing the wonderful Notturno, D897, as ‘a great rarity’. Presumbly that’s a rarity along the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Six Moments Musicaux
Barry Douglas continues his Schubert traversal with the most overtly Beethovenian of Schubert sonatas, the C minor, D958, whose muscular...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
SCHUBERT Elysium (Carolyn Sampson)
Carolyn Sampson | Joseph Middleton
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton are recording so much these days that it’s hard to find a new vocal disc...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023
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