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Review of Roderick Williams: Schubert Lieder

Roderick Williams: Schubert Lieder

Iain Burnside | Roderick Williams

Delphian

This disc might start with a bang, Iain Burnside welcoming us on board with a firm jolt at the start...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16

Review of SCHUBERT Fantasie and other Piano Duets

SCHUBERT Fantasie and other Piano Duets

Alexander Melnikov | Andreas Staier

Harmonia Mundi

Bringing together two of the most individual pianistic brains around, giving them a copy of a Graf fortepiano and putting...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017

Review of SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 13-15

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 13-15

Artemis Quartet

Virgin Classics

Go straight to D810, Death and the Maiden. The two opening fortissimo motifs are like clarion calls. The Artemis Quartet...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012

Review of Still Schubert

Still Schubert

Albane Carrère | Quatuor Alfama

Cyprès

The Brussels-based Alfama Quartet – a new name to me – give an impressive performance of Death and the Maiden,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Williams & Burnside)

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Williams & Burnside)

Iain Burnside | Roderick Williams

Chandos

After giving us Winter Journey last year (Signum, 5/18), Roderick Williams now turns to Schubert’s great song-cycles in their original...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (William Youn)

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (William Youn)

William Youn

Sony Classical

William Youn first made an impression on me with his Mozart sonatas for Oehms; and in 2018 I much enjoyed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20

Review of SCHUBERT Trio Opus 100. Sonatensatz. Notturno (Busch Trio)

SCHUBERT Trio Opus 100. Sonatensatz. Notturno (Busch Trio)

Busch Trio

Alpha

I didn’t expect to begin this review with the single-movement Sonatensatz – and it’s true, you’re not likely to buy...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2020

Review of SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet

Christian Tetzlaff | Florian Donderer | Julian Prégardien | Marie-Elisabeth Hecker | Martin Helmchen | Rachel Roberts | Tanja Tetzlaff

Alpha

These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

Review of Schubert - Complete Piano Duets, Volume 4

Schubert - Complete Piano Duets, Volume 4

Anthony Goldstone | Caroline Clemmow

Olympia

Goldstone and Clemmow are as lively and engaging as in previous volumes. They make an especially strong case for the...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1999

Review of Schubert Impromptus

Schubert Impromptus

Mitsuko Uchida

Philips

I doubt whether this is going to join my three or four preferred recordings of all time of these pieces...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1997

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