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Usually we find these much-heralded artists applying their considerable expertise in the vast world of Baroque repertoire–and in a couple of instances, in sonatas by
Florian Krumpöck takes longer timings than usual to get through Schubert’s B-flat D. 960 sonata. These result less from slow tempos than from the pianist’s
The Mandelring Quartet initially raises high hopes in the first movement of Schubert’s String Quartet No. 15. After performances that attempt to “Brucknerize” the music
The fifth release in Leif Ove Andsnes and Ian Bostridge’s Schubert project ought to be subtitled “The Incredible Shrinking Composer”, since it leads off with
Clara Haskil’s magnificent August 8, 1957 Salzburg Festival recital previously appeared on the Music and Arts label, and you can read my review of it
This is a puzzling release. Joseph James, the arranger, isn’t a person but a duo: Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown. What they have
Max Reger’s Bach transcriptions for organ have little to do with the style and spirit of the composer’s original works for the instrument. The Chromatic
[Editor’s Note: In the wake of the late-breaking scandal concerning the provenance of Joyce Hatto’s recordings, we had the option of removing all Hatto reviews,
Charles Munch’s Schubert Ninth is my personal favorite performance. It is unbelievably exciting, with the orchestra playing as if its collective life depended on it.
This isn’t Karl Böhm’s well-known Schubert Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic, but a live version broadcast by (then) East German radio in 1979. It’s similar
