Schoenberg Transcriptions

Lyon Opera Soloists | Markus Schäfer

The plum here is Reger’s Romantic Suite. The performance captures both Schoenberg’s intention in his transcription (that the essence of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997

Schubert Piano Works

Olga Tverskaya

Recent issues show pianists searching for the instrument best suited to Schubert’s characteristic musical language and subtly coloured harmonic vocabulary....

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Schubert Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Helmuth Rilling | Real Filharmonía de Galicia

Schubert from Spain: bright, fresh, lively, colourful and never over-sophisticated. In theory, that should in itself be enough for a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1999

Schubert Lieder

Edith Mathis | Karl Engel | Kurt Weber

Edith Mathis has had a distinguished career stretching now over more than 20 years as an opera and Lieder interpreter....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1990

Schubert Complete Trios

Beaux Arts Trio | Grumiaux Trio

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1994

Schubert Lieder

Benjamin Britten | Peter Pears

Here's another recommendable version of Die schone Mullerin to add to those already in the catalogue. For many years it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Schubert Piano Sonata, D894

Valery Afanassiev

Whereas the catalogue's other contenders couple Schubert's so-called 'Fantasy Sonata' in G with something else, from this Russian-born, French-domiciled pianist,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1994

Schubert (4) Impromptus; Piano Sonata D916b

Resonanz Ensemble | Sebastian Knauer

This disc is invaluable on two fronts. First, it introduces us in a first recording to 572 bars of original...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2007

Schubert: Lieder

Elisabeth Speiser | John Buttrick

This is the kind of disc that makes me leap to my word-processor to try to convey the pleasure I...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1991

Schubert Octet

Mullova Ensemble

A spacious performance, enthralling and poetic: it leaves behind the world of happy Viennese music-making (best exemplified on disc, perhaps,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2006