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Review of Schubert Rosamunde

Schubert Rosamunde

Elly Ameling | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Leipzig Radio Chorus

Philips

Wilhelmina von Chezy's play Rosamunde is well known to be a hopeless farrago of nonsense. No trace of it remains...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Review of Schubert String Quartets

Schubert String Quartets

Alban Berg Qt

EMI

These four CDs differ more than I would have expected but I found them all very enjoyable. The Amadeus DG...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 20. Piano Duets

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 20. Piano Duets

Cédric Pescia | Philippe Cassard

La Dolce Volta

The title ‘1828’ refers to Schubert’s final and astoundingly productive year, which brought forth the three duets and solo sonata...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

Review of SCHUBERT String Quintet

SCHUBERT String Quintet

Anne Gastinel | Quatuor Diotima

Naïve

Another C major Quintet – following on from the Pavel Haas Quartet (with cellist Danjulo Ishizaka), whose interpretation I have...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2014

Review of SCHUBERT Octet CRUSELL Concert Trio

SCHUBERT Octet CRUSELL Concert Trio

Carducci Quartet | Michael Thompson | Philip Gibbon

Somm Recordings

The spirit of the Schubertiade is easily felt in performances of his Octet: such a convivial, good-humoured work. It was...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

Review of SCHUBERT Lieder

SCHUBERT Lieder

Ailish Tynan | Iain Burnside

Delphian

According to Delphian’s website, this is the first volume of a projected series of Schubert songs featuring different singers. Ailish...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2015

Review of SCHUBERT Songs

SCHUBERT Songs

Camilla Tilling | Paul Rivinius

BIS

The al fresco exuberance of ‘Bei dir allein’ gets this recital off to a delectable start: Camilla Tilling’s vernal tone...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

Review of SCHUBERT Fantasy, D760. Piano Sonata No 21, D960

SCHUBERT Fantasy, D760. Piano Sonata No 21, D960

Hideyo Harada

Audite

A couple of years back I much enjoyed Hideyo Harada’s disc of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov (4/09). This release proves to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2012

Review of Schubert Piano Sonatas

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Michael Endres

Capriccio

Although Schubert's A minor and D major Sonatas were written in the same year (1825), they demonstrate an astonishing emotional...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Review of Schubert Piano Works

Schubert Piano Works

James Lisney

Olympia

Although Schubert’s E major Sonata is only a fragment (it lacks a finale), Lisney finds much in it that anticipates...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

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