Latest News: Classical, Schubert (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Claudio Abbado conducts Schubert's "Great" C Major Symphony 1st June 2015James listens to the late Claudio Abbado's account of Schubert's Ninth Symphony with the Orchestra Mozart.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays Schubert Piano Sonatas 12th May 2014James enjoys Paul Lewis's latest recording of Schubert - the turbulent piano sonatas written towards the end of his life.
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Recording of the Week,
Schubert works for violin and piano from Ibragimova and Tiberghien 5th August 2013The duo’s intimate and restrained approach scores highly for pure beauty of tone and natural rapport, but doesn’t preclude plenty of playfulness and bite in the faster movements - fantastically vibrant playing, technically brilliant and always stylish.
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Recording of the Week,
Sublime Schubert from Paul Lewis 31st October 2011Following his ten-year immersion in Beethoven and critically-acclaimed recordings of Schubert’s three great song-cycles with tenor Mark Padmore, the British pianist brings unrivalled poise and intimacy to the Piano Sonatas D840, 850 and 894 and the Impromptus D899.
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Recording of the Week,
Schubert's Schwanengesang from Padmore and Lewis 12th September 2011Padmore’s bright, light tenor is often hauntingly beautiful in Schubert’s ‘swan-song’, combining with Lewis’s imaginative and insightful playing in a performance of great musical integrity which is a worthy successor to their superb Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin.
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Recording of the Week,
Schubert: Piano Duets 8th November 2010Both eminent Schubertians in their own right, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne join forces for the great Fantasie in F minor D940 and a handful of small-scale works for piano four hands in this captivating contender for my Disc of the Year.
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Recording of the Week,
Winterreise from Padmore and Lewis 19th October 2009The British pianist and tenor launch a series of Schubert song-cycles with a spellbinding account of the late, great ‘Winter Journey’ which strikes Chris as ‘music-making of the absolute highest order’.
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Recording of the Week,
Julia Fischer plays Schubert 14th September 2009The German violinist and pianist Martin Helmchen convert Chris to the pleasures of Schubert’s violin sonatas in ‘by far the most convincing performances I’ve heard of these works’.
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Recording of the Week,
The Jerusalem Quartet 21st April 2008The former BBC New Generation Artists display ‘excitement and vitality’ in Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz.