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Zimerman takes us into a place of deep introspection, finding vast universes within. The recorded sound, by Rainer Maillard, is beautifully judged, combining gentleness with absolute clarity…This... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
8th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: 4797588
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 82 minutes
Awards:
Presto Recording of the Week, 8th September 2017
Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Disc of the Month
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
The Times Records of the Year, 2017
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Instrument
[Schiff] shows how [the fortepiano's] muted, delicate sound can transform Schubert for modern listeners. Two of the piano sonatas, the G Major, D894, and the late B Flat, D960, speak to us as... — Financial Times, 9th May 2015, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
7th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: 4811572
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Instrumental Finalist
Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Disc of the Month
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Instrumental
His playing is stunningly beautiful with some wonderful varied timbres, particularly when the music modulates to distant keys…There are brilliant moments, too, in Hamelin’s performance of the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
27th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: CDA68213
Label: Hyperion
Length: 81 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
Record Review, 12th May 2018, Recording of the Week
her performances are characteristically thoughtful – too much so for my liking.
Pires’s approach is more high Romantic than late Classical, constantly oscillating between loud and soft, fast... — Financial Times, 9th February 2013, 3 out of 5 starsMore…
No question about it, Leonskaja’s Schubert on Warner (her Schubert recordings for Teldec are completely different) should provide you with a lifetime’s worth of musical nourishment, and the sound,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2022More…
Release Date:
26th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: 9029628785
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Awards:
Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
Uchida's concentration and inwardness are of a rare order in her absorbed, deeply poetic reading of the B flat Sonata. No pianist makes you so aware how much of the first two movements is marked... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…
Piano Sonatas D.958, 959, 960 & 3 Klavierstucke D.946
Alexander Lonquich
Lonquich’s hearty serving of late Schubert is one to return to. The German pianist approaches these expansive sonatas with great perceptiveness and feeling. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: ALPHA433
Label: Alpha
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Awards:
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
Ugorskaja’s slow and often static approach [is] epitomised in her double-length bass trill at the end of the first phrase of the sonata...Within this state of pervasive lingering, if you can... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020More…
Release Date:
15th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: AVI8553107
Label: Avi Music
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Awards:
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Solo Music