Schubert Piano Works

Vahan Mardirossian

Could there be too many recordings of major works? Not so long as they all have something illuminating to say....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2004

Schubert Masses Nos 2 and 4; Deutsche Messe

Immortal Bach Ensemble | Leipzig Chamber Orchestra | Morten Schuldt-Jensen

With its easy, songful charm and pastoral “Benedictus” cast as a round (shades here of the “canon” quartet in Fidelio),...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2010

Schubert Piano Trios

Bekova Sisters

Other groups, including Serkin and Adolf and Hermann Busch in their famous 1935 recording (part of a two-disc set), have...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1995

Schubert Piano Sonata No 21; Klavierstücke, D946

Alain Planès

With over 60 versions in the CD catalogue, Schubert’s last sonata is now up there with the Moonlight, Pathetique and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1999

SCHUBERT Works for Piano Trio. Arpeggione Sonata

Christian Tetzlaff | Lars Vogt | Tanja Tetzlaff

How does one review a recording of this nature? The very last studio activity of the late Lars Vogt, a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 20. Minuets (Volodos)

Is it possible to make Schubert too beautiful? To put it another way: where is the line between naturally beautiful...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Bo Skovhus)

Bo Skovhus | Stefan Vladar

I had my problems with Bo Skovhus’s recent Schöne Müllerin (7/17), and many of the same issues, alas, blight his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SCHUBERT Winterreise (in English)

Christopher Glynn | Roderick Williams

We’re still used to opera being performed in English, not least on record through the series sponsored by the late...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2018

Schubert in English Vol 4

Christopher Glynn | Roderick Williams | Rowan Pierce

These are new translations by Jeremy Sams, commissioned by Christopher Glynn for a modern English-speaking audience. They flow naturally with...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 12/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Samuel Hasselhorn)

Ammiel Bushakevitz | Samuel Hasselhorn

In a class by itself? That well-worn cliché kept surfacing during multiple listenings to this new recording, which promises to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023