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Gerhard Oppitz’s 22-minute-plus timing for the Schubert B-flat D. 960 sonata’s first movement accounts less for slow tempos than for its fairly consistent tempo fluctuations,
Yes, it sounds crazy to make yet another recording of Schubert’s Trout Quintet a “reference recording”, particularly given the number of really good ones already
John Eliot Gardiner’s fresh take on Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 is only partially about performing forces. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique’s period-based proportions yield impressive
Any fan of lieder knows that there are at least a zillion Schubert recitals on disc, performed by all manner of singers, from “golden era”
For ensemble synchronicity and fine-tuned calibration of all things pianistic, Katia and Marielle Labèque begin where most two-piano teams leave off. Their rendition of Mozart’s
This collection of songs published in the year following Schubert’s death in 1828 is not a true cycle, nor were these pieces intended as a
The world is not exactly bereft of excellent Die schöne Müllerin recordings. Yet there’s always room for one as masterful and communicative as Werner Güra’s
Recorded in July 1985, this is the sixth of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s seven commercially published versions of Schubert’s Winterreise, and easily the finest of the baritone’s
Thomas Quasthoff’s fine account of Schubert’s Schwanengesang D. 957 joins a distinguished group of existing baritonal renderings of some of the composer’s darker, emotionally intense,
As a Schubert player, Seymour Lipkin mirrors his mentor Rudolf Serkin’s literalism, albeit with less intense, more variable results. For example, I’ve rarely heard the
