Browse: Building a Library, Schubert (composer)

The Quatuor Ebène, who together with the remarkable cellist Gautier Capuçon perform the C major String Quintet, stands out, even in a golden age of string quartets…and since Capuçon integrates... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is easily the most searching and comprehensive account of Schubert's first great song-cycle that I have heard...Kaufmann commands a hypnotic tone which leaves one, as the long last song... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here we get all of Schubert's works written for violin and piano, in performances which it is hard to imagine ever being bettered...Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien don't attempt to make... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The endlessly ear-opening consequences are riveting; the wide-ranging aplomb of Beethoven's Variations could have been conceived with Staier's musical curiosity and flair in mind...This isn't... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Trio Zimmermann] narrow the gap between the learned and the popular...No detachment in Schubert's unfinished one-movement Trio either. The musicians are consistently sympathetic to changing... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 More…

Schubert's two most accessible quartets receive interpretations on this disc which are as near ideal as one is ever likely to hear. In a time of great string quartet playing, the Takács Quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…