SCHUBERT Octet. Quartettsatz

Edding Quartet | Northernlight

It’s good to have a reading of Schubert’s Octet which explores it via the pungency of period instruments. The very...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

Schubert String Quartet Transcriptions

Kremlin Chamber Orchestra | Misha Rachlevsky

Rachlevsky has chosen three particularly amenable quartets to orchestrate. The swooning romantic allure of No. 12 (the Quartettsatz), the haunting...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 4/1999

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Christoph Prégardien | Cord Garben | Kurt Moll

‘A weary traveller, very much in six-league boots’ was the late Alan Blyth’s less than euphoric verdict on Kurt Moll’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2013

HUMMEL. SCHUBERT String Quintets

Music Collection (The)

Period instruments in Schubert and Hummel chamber recordings are still relatively thin on the ground. And this pairing of works...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2014

Schubert Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Trudelies Leonhardt

These four discs bring us the last seven, best-known piano sonatas plus the earlier A major work heralding Schubert's growth...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1991

Schubert Violin Sonatinas

David Grimal | Valery Afanassiev

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/2004

Schubert Part Songs for Male Voices, Vol. 1

Singphoniker

This is one of the more interesting recording projects marking the bicentenary of Schubert’s birth. Schubert composed around 110 works...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1997

Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 6

Michel Dalberto

Unlike many of his rivals, Michel Dalberto is not confining his Schubert cycle to the familiar mature composer. This Volume...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1993

Schubert Lieder für Bass

Cord Garben | Kurt Moll

The bass voice drew from Schubert a variety of passions: the clenched fist of the Promethean man; the anguished vision...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1987

Schubert Piano Trios

Florestan Fortepiano Trio

Except for the B flat movement of 1812, Schubert composed all his music for piano trio towards the end of...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997