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Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 2
Here is Schubert playing as compulsive and single-minded as any on record. Formidably serious and concentrated this is not for...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996
Schubert Orchestral works
Moscow Virtuosi | Vladimir Spivakov
A Fifth of unusual delicacy and finesse, in fact, from the very opening everything seems ideal: the slender proportions and...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1992
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.11
Brigitte Fassbaender | Graham Johnson
Volumes 1, 8 and now 11 have been distinguished by the appearances of three of the most individual mezzo interpreters...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1991
Schubert Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
How strange that only a century ago it was still quite an event to encounter a Schubert sonata in a...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992
Schubert String Quintet
Bernard Greenhouse | Juilliard Qt
For purists, the sound here may be a trace overripe, with some of the rosiny bite as it were taken...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1989
Schubert Orchestral works
Charles Groves | English Sinfonia
An Unfinished of coherence and integrity (first movement repeat observed) that eschews the dynamic extremes of, say, Kleiber and Bernstein...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1991
Schubert String Quartet, D887
In his last and greatest string quartet Schubert seems to have set out, like Mahler, to contain the world. In...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1989
Schubert Mayrhofer-Lieder, Volume 1
Cornelius Hauptmann | Stefan Laux
As the Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition is arranged by poet, Mayrhofer will win equal prominence alongside his more illustrious counterparts, Goethe...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2000
Schubert Piano Trios
I have to confess I hadn’t previously encountered the Trio Dali. My loss: this new set of Schubert’s piano trios...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2011
Schubert String Quartets Nos 13 & 14
With their Decca Beethoven cycle, the Takács Quartet set a modern-day benchmark. Now, with a new record company and a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2006
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