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SCHUBERT ‘The Finished “Unfinished”’: Symphony No 8, D759 (reconstr Venzago)
Basel Chamber Orchestra | Mario Venzago
Mario Venzago explains that nobody knows why Schubert left the Unfinished unfinished. In fact, in the booklet, he persuasively expounds...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017
SCHUBERT Poetisches Tagebuch
Christoph Prégardien | Julius Drake
Christoph Prégardien is still one of the finest, most thoughtful Lieder singers active today, and this new recital, presenting nine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D845, D894, D958 & D960 (Shai Wosner)
Of Shai Wosner’s 13 or so CDs, if my calculations are correct, four are solo recordings, and three of those...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
Schubert Symphony No. 9
Saito Kinen Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa
On this showing, the Saito Kinen Orchestra can rank with the world’s finest. Quite aside from their purely technical attributes...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
Schubert Schwanengesang; (5) Lieder
Inger Södergren | Nathalie Stutzmann
Tacked on by the publisher to avoid the unlucky number 13, ‘Die Taubenpost’ can seem a charming irrelevancy after Schwanengesang’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2006
Schubert String Quintet in C
Brandis Qt | Miklós Perényi | Takács Quartet | Wen-Sinn Yang
The whereabouts of the manuscript for Schubert's String Quintet, D956 are unknown and there are apparently no surviving sketches either....
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
Schubert String Quintet and Trio
This new version of the Quintet sounds really well; the recording is excellent, with resonance enough to do justice to...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1997
Schubert Chamber Works
The Raphael Ensemble have carefully thought through their responses and approach to the Schubert Quintet. They seem to view it...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1995
Schubert String Quartets, D703 & D810
The Lindsay's approach to the first movement of the Death and the Maiden is highly charged and dramatic. They employ...
Reviewed in issue 7/1986
Schubert: Lieder
James Levine | Karl Leister | Kathleen Battle
I sometimes permit myself to wonder whether singers quite realize what they are undertaking when they embark upon a Schubert...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
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