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Mendelssohn & Schubert
The genius of the youthful Mendelssohn in composing the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream at the age of only...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Schubert Piano Sonatas
In his illuminating booklet-essay Stephen Hough remarks that Schubert’s individualism, in extreme contrast to Beethoven’s, is ‘a withdrawal into solitude...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op 80; Schubert String Quintet
An unusual pairing but these two works, written at the end of their composers’ tragically short lives, form a striking...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2004
Schubert & Haydn String Quartets
Included here are a pleasant performance and a good one, both well recorded. The 'pleasant' reading is the Schubert: beautifully...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1992
Schubert Piano Sonatas Nos 9,16
This is the sixth recording of Mitsuko Uchida's cycle of Schubert piano sonatas - and these performances certainly have an...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2000
Schubert Mass No 6, D950
Sony Classical have given us some outstanding Schubert Mass recordings in recent years culminating in a ravishing account of the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1997
Schubert Piano Works
The Schubert series of Brendel and Schiff, the return of Richter—to say nothing of Ashkenazy's own conducting career with its...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995
Schnabel plays Schubert
In the 1920s and 1930s, Artur Schnabel, and that too little known pianist Eduard Erdmann more or less single-handedly staged...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1992
Schubert Lieder Recital
Hendricks and Lupu are not the first names that would spring to mind for a Schubertiade. And it is precisely...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1987
Bruch Violin Concerto/Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate | Nigel Kennedy
Kennedy has shrewdly augmented the regular concerto coupling of Bruch and Mendelssohn with the rare Schubert work, and the result...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989
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