Latest News: Classical, Schubert (composer)
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Interview,
Can Çakmur on Schubert 18th January 2024Ahead of his gala concert launching the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition at Kings Place tomorrow, the Turkish pianist discusses his Schubert + project on BIS, his friendship with Fazıl Say, and why he's 'super-unpicky' about the instruments he plays in concert...
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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 44: Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn 18th November 2023Baritone, soprano and pianist offer their perspectives on the latest instalment in Signum Classics's series, which features Jeremy Sams's translations of Schubert Lieder.
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Interview,
Eric Lu on Schubert 23rd February 2023The pianist talks about his recent album of Schubert sonatas, his empathy for the troubled composer, and his unique relationship with his music.
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Recording of the Week,
Schubert Revisited from Matthias Goerne 30th December 2022The German baritone is on top form in this recital of nineteen Lieder in bespoke orchestrations by one of his regular recital-partners Alexander Schmalcz, with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen responding to his simple eloquence in kind.
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Interview,
Benjamin Appl on Winterreise 16th February 2022The German baritone talks to Katherine about his new recording of Schubert's great song-cycle (released on Alpha Classics last Friday) and his relationship with his late mentor Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on Winterreise 27th April 2021The American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new recording with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, which approaches Schubert's great song-cycle from the perspective of the woman whom the narrator leaves behind...
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Interview,
Duo Pleyel on Schubert 8th June 2020David talks to husband-and-wife piano duo Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya about their latest album Lebensstürme, out now on Linn.
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Interview,
Xavier Sabata on Winterreise 20th January 2020The Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about taking 'a trip into the darkness of the mind' on his recording of Schubert's great song-cycle, released before Christmas on Berlin Classics.
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Recording of the Week,
Winterreise from Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès 23rd August 2019Fifteen years on from his first audio recording of the work, the British tenor retraces Schubert’s 'Winter Journey' with a new companion in an unsettling, unsentimentalised interpretation that’s underpinned by years of scholarship on both sides.
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Interview,
Sir András Schiff on Schubert 7th May 2019The Hungarian-born British pianist talks to Katherine about late Schubert, and ‘falling in love at first sight’ with the Brodmann fortepiano which he plays on his recent recordings of sonatas and impromptus on ECM.
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Recording of the Week,
András Schiff plays late Schubert 12th April 2019The Hungarian-born pianist brings introspective poetry to two late sonatas, the Four Impromptus D899 and the Drei Klavierstücke D946, recorded on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano from 1820.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul Lewis plays early Schubert and Weber 15th February 2019The British pianist radiates sympathy and imagination in two piano sonatas from the 1810s by young composers who both died before their fortieth birthdays.
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Interview,
Julian Prégardien on Hans Zender's Winterreise 18th December 2018The German tenor talks to Katherine about recording Zender's 'composed interpretation' of Schubert's great song-cycle, out now on Alpha.
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Interview,
Ilker Arcayürek on Schubert 27th September 2017The up-and-coming tenor talks to Katherine about his career to date and Der Einsame, out this month on Champs Hills Records.
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Recording of the Week,
Schubert piano sonatas from Krystian Zimerman 8th September 2017James enjoys the Polish pianist's performance of Schubert's last two sonatas for the piano.
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Interview,
Daniel Behle on Schubert's unfinished operas 22nd June 2017The German tenor talks to Katherine about recording the surviving fragments of Schubert's works for the stage.
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Interview,
Roderick Williams on Schubert 13th September 2016Katherine talks to the baritone about the first furlong of his Schubertian odyssey.
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Recording of the Week,
Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside perform Schubert Lieder 19th August 2016Katherine listens to Roderick Williams' Schubert recital disc, with pianist Iain Burnside.
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Interview,
Christoph von Dohnányi on Schubert 9 16th June 2016Katherine talks to the veteran German conductor about his new live recording of 'The Great' with the Philharmonia Orchestra, out on Signum on Friday.
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Recording of the Week,
Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert and Beethoven 15th January 2016James listens to Grigory Sokolov play Beethoven's Hammerklavier and works by Schubert.