Rysanov: In Schubert's Company

Jacob Katsnelson | Maxim Rysanov | Riga Sinfonietta

First, a name to watch, if you’re not already watching her, that is: Dobrinka Tabakova, Bulgarian-born, a prize-winning pupil of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2017

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21. 6 Moments Musicaux D780

Daniel Tong | Fabrizio Chiovetta

‘Who will buy my sweet red roses, who will buy?’ OK, so we’re not talking floristry here but piano sonatas,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2013

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 - 5

Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard

Images of urbane Schubert disappear at the opening fortissimo chord of No 3. Thomas Dausgaard’s fairly swift-moving introduction is neither...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Late Piano Sonatas

Just to clarify, this latest Schubert release is a mix of Paul Lewis old and new. The last two sonatas...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/14

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Padmore)

Kristian Bezuidenhout | Mark Padmore

Only a few months after Florian Boesch’s second recording of Schubert’s great wintry song-cycle (Hyperion, A/17), here’s a second bite...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 6

Basel Symphony Orchestra | Dennis Russell Davies

Having recorded the complete symphonies of both Haydn (Sony) and Bruckner (Arte Nova), Dennis Russell Davies is well placed to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Trout Quintet (Thymos Quartet)

Christoph Eschenbach | Jean-Frédéric Neuburger | Thymos Quartet | Yann Dubost

Christoph Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. How affectionately...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Vol 3 (William Youn)

William Youn

I much enjoyed the finesse of William Youn’s playing in his first volume of Schubert (A/20) and now we reach...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

SCHUBERT Octet in F Major (Wigmore Soloists)

Wigmore Soloists

Schubert may have taken Beethoven’s Septet as the model for his Octet but he filled the template with his own...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Konstantin Krimmel)

Daniel Heide | Konstantin Krimmel

In his booklet note for this excellent new recording of Die schöne Müllerin, Konstantin Krimmel muses on the suicide figures...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023