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Schubert Winterreise
Ian Partridge | Richard Burnett
I have for long appreciated Ian Partridge's account of Die schone Mullerin for its straightforward singing and plangent interpretation. Now,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 16. Wandererfantasie. Impromptus
The first instalment in Paul Lewis’s Schubert series (2/12) got the year off to a wonderful start and he ends...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang
Florian Boesch | Malcolm Martineau
Florian Boesch is never a singer to take for granted. In Schwanengesang he changes the (posthumously) published order of both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015
Hans Hotter Lieder recital
Hans Hotter celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year. To mark the occasion Preiser have issued this disc of Lieder...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989
The Harmonious Blacksmith
Here is a well-chosen group of harpsichord pieces out of which all of us must surely find at least one...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1984
Sacred Songs of Sorrow
Charivari Agréable | Kah-Ming Ng | Rodrigo del Pozo
These 'Sacred Songs of Sorrow' mostly come from mid- to late-17th-century Lutheran Germany, where music with multiple viols was associated...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000
SCHUBERT Winterreise
Gary Matthewman | Matthew Rose
My spontaneous reaction after hearing Matthew Rose’s trudge across Schubert’s snowbound landscape was ‘He’ll survive’. From the flickering will-o’-the-wisp of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2013
Schubert (The) Impromptus
Greatly celebrated in his native Italy, Andrea Lucchesini is a less familiar figure on the London scene. His live recording...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2010
Schubert Winterreise D 911
Christian Elsner | Henschel Qt
Christian Elsner himself commissioned this arrangement of Schubert’s cycle for string quartet by Jens Josef. I was fascinated by an...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2003
Schubert Complete Lieder, Volume 36
Most of the material on this volume is not first-rate Schubert, but the performances certainly are; indeed, they’re superb, by...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000
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