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Jennifer Koh is a really good violinist, and this enterprising program showcases her skills comprehensively. Schubert’s remarkable late Fantasie in C for Violin and Piano
On the basis of Elisabeth Leonskaja’s fine Schubert recordings for Teldec, this release (with one exception) is something of a letdown. Leonskaja takes broader than
If any song cycle is associated with a male protagonist, it’s Schubert’s Winterreise, so a female singer may take some getting used to. Other women
The high technical and artistic standards cellist Peter Bruns has set in other recordings are evident throughout this release. For example, in the “Arpeggione” sonata’s
Hans Hotter recorded Schubert’s bleak, magisterial Winterreise cycle at least four times. This is his first version, made for Deutsche Grammophon in 1942, first issued
The spirit is willing but the flesh, or at least the voice, is not. Gérard Souzay was one of the great masters of the art
Karl Böhm left a huge recorded legacy sharply focused on the central Austro-German classics and on 20th century heirs such as Berg and Strauss. For
Revisiting the first of Alfred Brendel’s several recorded versions of the Schubert C minor sonata leads me to conclude that it’s his finest. Tensile drive
Testament’s series of Gérard Souzay reissues got off to a faltering start with discs focused on his later career, when his warm, supple baritone had
Although the sticker on this SACD says “hybrid multichannel”, this is in fact a stereo recording in either normal or SACD format, as per yet
