Schubert
Schubert: String Quartets (Rubicon Classics)
Raw, bleeding late Schubert [DMD]
Sandrine Piau (soprano) Voyage intime (Alpha Classics)
An excellent recital by a distinguished soprano [RWe]
Schubert: Schwanengesang (Decca)
Urgent unfettered performances certain to divide the crowd [DMD]
Julius Prüwer (conductor) Forgotten Maestro (Pristine Audio)
A welcome restoration of the recordings of a largely overlooked German conductor [JW]
Yvonne Lefébure (piano): Inédits 5 (Solstice)
Solstice’s au revoir to a great artist [SG]
Schubert Revisited (Deutsche Grammophon)
A revelatory album [JQ]
Launy Grøndahl (conductor) Legacy Vol. 7 (Danacord)
The Grøndahl legacy series reaches volume 7 with a question mark or two [JW]
Sir Adrian Boult: BBC SO Pre-war Vol. 1 (Pristine)
An very fine release of Boult’s early recordings of Bach and Viennese masters [GT]
Yvonne Lefébure (piano) Inédits 5 (Solstice)
The final Solstice salute to a great piano stylist [JW]
Pablo Casals: Philips Legacy (Eloquence)
Late Casals in imperfect recordings, attractively remastered and presented [JW]
Julius Prüwer (conductor) Forgotten maestro (Pristine)
A welcome to a neglected conductor from the early electrical recording period in Berlin [GT]
Schubert: Schwanengesang (Pentatone)
The final instalment of Bostridge’s Schubert trilogy is a partnership of equals, voice and piano coming together to create something very special [ST]
Schubert: Symphony Nos 5 & 6 (Challenge)
Well-crafted accounts which would sometimes benefit from a lighter touch [MG]
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