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Review of Schubert Lieder

Schubert Lieder

Barbara Hendricks | Bruno Schneider | Radu Lupu | Sabine Meyer

EMI

A bland recital, this. If there is happiness, it is of an habitual, day-to-day sort (your favourite table at the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Review of Popular Schubert Songs

Popular Schubert Songs

Geoffrey Parsons | Janet Baker

EMI

The voice comes straight in, opening the recital with Die Forelle, dispensing with piano introduction, and it evokes immediately the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Review of Schubert Fantasies

Schubert Fantasies

András Schiff | Yuuko Shiokawa

ECM New Series

Nearly all Schubert's great instrumental works maintain the classical four-movement layout: by the 1820s his mastery in handling and extending...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2000

Review of Schubert Symphony No. 9

Schubert Symphony No. 9

Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

EMI

My initial enthusiasm for Muti's Beethoven has cooled several degrees since I reviewed the First and Fifth Symphonies on LP...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Review of Schoenberg/Schubert Works for Chamber Orchestra

Schoenberg/Schubert Works for Chamber Orchestra

Iona Brown | Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Chandos

Given the wrong sort of performance, Verklarte Nacht can drag on interminably – but not here. Iona Brown’s reading with...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Review of Schubert - Complete Piano Duets, Vol 5

Schubert - Complete Piano Duets, Vol 5

Anthony Goldstone | Caroline Clemmow

Olympia

Marches dominate the fifth volume of Goldstone and Clemmow's piano duet survey - the irrepressible Marches caracteristiques set down with...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 2/2000

Review of Schubert: Lieder

Schubert: Lieder

Jessye Norman | Philip Moll

I can claim possibly some very small influence on this record. Some years ago Jessye Norman broke the last and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985

Review of SCHUBERT Winterreise

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Geoffrey Parsons | Jon Vickers

Warner Classics

Jon Vickers’s 1983 Winterreise is simply hors concours. As with everything he sang, the Canadian tenor’s sincerity and depth of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016

Review of BRITTEN; SCHUBERT Songs

BRITTEN; SCHUBERT Songs

Iain Burnside | Robin Tritschler

Wigmore Hall Live

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Wigmore Hall Live and the label has plenty to celebrate. Its latest disc,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2015

Review of Schubert Piano Sonata, K960; (3) Lieder

Schubert Piano Sonata, K960; (3) Lieder

Ian Bostridge | Leif Ove Andsnes

EMI Classics

As Richard Wigmore remarks in his booklet, biographical speculation is always a risky game with Schubert. Listening to Leif Ove...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2005

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