Schubert Lieder - Poets of Sensibility, Vol 3

Ulrich Eisenlohr | Wolfgang Holzmair

The pre-Romantic poets of Empfindsamkeit (‘sensibility’), represented here by Hölty, Claudius and Stolberg, inspired a handful of famous Schubert settings...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2006

Schubert Symphony No. 9

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Erich Kleiber

There is a strongly defined image associated with the name Erich Kleiber: ''almost fanatical ardour...utmost possible precision...strictly non-sentimental'' (Grove). It...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1988

Schubert Piano Quintet, 'The Trout'

Aldo Baerten | Alois Posch | Antoine Tamestit | Christian Tetzlaff | Marie Elisabeth Hecker | Martin Helmchen

Martin Helmchen, born in 1982, is the young pianist who won the Clara Haskil Prize in 2001, and who has...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2009

Schubert String Quintet

Paganini Ensemble

This account of the C major Quintet is notably clean, disciplined and transparent, with the extra cello giving richness but...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1996

SCHUBERT Piano Quintet D667. Trout variations

Antti Siirala | Benjamin Schmid | Erik Sollid | Jan Vogler | Janne Saksala | Lars Anders Tomter | Stian Carstensen

Epithets like ‘blithe’, ‘happy’, ‘lyrical’, ‘enchanting’ used to describe the Trout Quintet and haven’t changed over the years. The Moritzburg...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2012

SCHUBERT Piano Trios

Andreas Staier | Daniel Sepec | Roel Dieltiens

Three leading period instrumentalists play three of the finest chamber works of the early 19th century, and the disc is...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2016

SCHUBERT Octet BERWALD Crand Septet

Anima Eterna Brugge

Anima Eterna perform Schubert’s ever-lovable Octet on instruments largely from the early 19th century. And these instruments are wild. Lisa...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Piano Works Vol 7 (Vladimir Feltsman)

Vladimir Feltsman

In Vladimir Feltsman’s burly hands, Schubert’s Impromptus leap out of the drawing room into the opera house. The characteristically swimmy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 19. Impromptus D935

Nikolai Lugansky

Nicolai Lugansky is an impressive pianist, with a ravishingly beautiful sound and a technique that renders dense textures with perfect...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015

SCHUBERT Arias & Overtures (Behle)

Handicapped by stilted, slow-moving librettos, Schubert’s stage works, like Haydn’s, seem forever destined to languish on the margins of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017