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Julian Prégardien on Hans Zender's Winterreise
18th Dec 2018
The 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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Ilker Arcayürek on Schubert
27th Sep 2017
The 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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Schubert piano sonatas from Krystian Zimerman
8th Sep 2017
James enjoys the Polish pianist's performance of Schubert's last two sonatas for the piano.
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Schubert: Piano Sonatas D959 and D960
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
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Daniel Behle on Schubert's unfinished operas
22nd Jun 2017
The German tenor talks to Katherine about recording the surviving fragments of Schubert's works for the stage.
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Roderick Williams on Schubert
13th Sep 2016
Katherine talks to the baritone about the first furlong of his Schubertian odyssey.
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Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside perform Schubert Lieder
19th Aug 2016
Katherine listens to Roderick Williams' Schubert recital disc, with pianist Iain Burnside.
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Christoph von Dohnányi on Schubert 9
16th Jun 2016
Katherine 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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Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert and Beethoven
15th Jan 2016
James listens to Grigory Sokolov play Beethoven's Hammerklavier and works by Schubert.
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Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert & Beethoven
Grigory Sokolov (piano)
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Claudio Abbado conducts Schubert's "Great" C Major Symphony
1st Jun 2015
James listens to the late Claudio Abbado's account of Schubert's Ninth Symphony with the Orchestra Mozart.
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Paul Lewis plays Schubert Piano Sonatas
12th May 2014
James enjoys Paul Lewis's latest recording of Schubert - the turbulent piano sonatas written towards the end of his life.
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Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas
Paul Lewis (piano)
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Schubert works for violin and piano from Ibragimova and Tiberghien
5th Aug 2013
The duo’s intimate and restrained approach scores highly for pure beauty of tone and natural rapport, but doesn’t preclude plenty of playfulness and bite in the faster movements - fantastically vibrant playing, technically brilliant and always stylish.
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Sublime Schubert from Paul Lewis
31st Oct 2011
Following his ten-year immersion in Beethoven and critically-acclaimed recordings of Schubert’s three great song-cycles with tenor Mark Padmore, the British pianist brings unrivalled poise and intimacy to the Piano Sonatas D840, 850 and 894 and the Impromptus D899.
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Schubert's Schwanengesang from Padmore and Lewis
12th Sep 2011
Padmore’s bright, light tenor is often hauntingly beautiful in Schubert’s ‘swan-song’, combining with Lewis’s imaginative and insightful playing in a performance of great musical integrity which is a worthy successor to their superb Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin.
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Schubert: Piano Duets
8th Nov 2010
Both eminent Schubertians in their own right, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne join forces for the great Fantasie in F minor D940 and a handful of small-scale works for piano four hands in this captivating contender for my Disc of the Year.
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Schubert: Piano Duets
Paul Lewis (piano) & Steven Osborne (piano)
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Winterreise from Padmore and Lewis
19th Oct 2009
The British pianist and tenor launch a series of Schubert song-cycles with a spellbinding account of the late, great ‘Winter Journey’ which strikes Chris as ‘music-making of the absolute highest order’.
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Schubert: Winterreise D911
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Paul Lewis (piano)
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Julia Fischer plays Schubert
14th Sep 2009
The German violinist and pianist Martin Helmchen convert Chris to the pleasures of Schubert’s violin sonatas in ‘by far the most convincing performances I’ve heard of these works’.
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The Jerusalem Quartet
21st Apr 2008
The former BBC New Generation Artists display ‘excitement and vitality’ in Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz.
