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Schubert: Piano Sonata, D. 959 - Moments musicaux D. 780

Adam Laloum

Solo Piano - Released January 19, 2024 | harmonia mundi

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Adam Laloum has offered low-key Schubert in the past, and it has gone against the current grain of finding big Beethovenian drama in Schubert. Here, in the Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959, he shifts gears a bit. His first movement involves flexible tempos and a good deal of general instability. Then he settles down, resulting in a first-movement-heavy treatment of the sonata. It is unusual and probably fulfills the goal of standing out from the large crowd of recordings of this late Schubert work. Perhaps stronger are the six Moments Musicaux, where Laloum's perfect control results in crystalline miniatures that truly entrance the listener if external thoughts are set aside. Sample the Allegro, D. 780, No. 3, a perfect miniature. Harmonia Mundi finds idiomatic sound at the Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers but mikes Laloum too closely, picking up a good deal of non-musical noise. Laloum is perhaps a pianist who excels in music of small dimensions, a valuable thing in a field where heroics are usually what is valued, and he produces an excellent example here.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert - Meta

Claire Huangci

Classical - Released October 20, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Quintessence Schubert: Complete Symphonies, Rosamunde

Staatskapelle Dresden

Classical - Released October 1, 2019 | Brilliant Classics

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Schubert: Oktett

Isabelle Faust

Chamber Music - Released May 18, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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Clocking in at a full hour, the Octet in F Major is one of the longest works in the chamber music repertoire. Ravaged by disease, Schubert took as his starting point, as expressly stipulated in the commission he received from the Steward of the Archduke Rodolphe, Beethoven's Septet in E-flat major Op. 20, whose fame greatly chagrined its writer. In Schubert's Octet there is a certain joie de vivre cut across, as ever with him, by occasional notes of desperation (the call of the horn in the first movement, the elegiac turns of the Adagio). In order to meet his patron's very precise specifications, he used the same instrumentation, with the addition of a second violin, and he took on the same order of movements and the same tonal pattern as the Beethovian model. But while Schubert poured his work into this mould so as to please his client, he wrote a very personal work which, by his own account, would lead him towards the great symphonic form which would appear rather later with his Symphony No. 9 in C major. Isabelle Faust and friends make you laugh and cry, moving in perfect unison from one emotion to another, never hesitating to lay this sublime music bare, without any recourse to affected vibrato or excessive expression. A performance that brings us close to the fragility of existence. © François Hudry/Qobuz

Schubert + Schoenberg

Can Çakmur

Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | BIS

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Schubert

Khatia Buniatishvili

Solo Piano - Released March 15, 2019 | Sony Classical

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Recordings of Schubert's swan song in the piano sonata genre, the Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. 960, are abundant, and Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili deserves credit for trying something well out of the mainstream. This said, your reaction to the album may correspond to your general orientation toward iconoclasm. Buniatishvili's approach has the virtue of being coherent: she plays Schubert in a Lisztian way, and to underscore this she wraps up the program with Liszt's transcription of the famed song Ständchen, from the Schwanengesang cycle, D. 957. The four Impromptus of Op. 90 strike a nice balance between pianistic freedom and the intimate dimensions of these pieces; sample the final A flat major piece to hear the strongest argument for what Buniatishvili is doing here. She has a good deal of Lisztian charisma and a way of making you listen to what she's doing. The B flat major sonata you may find less satisfying. The opening movement is quite deliberate, with lots of tempo rubato, large dynamic contrasts, and pregnant slowdowns, with an enormous and not fully explicable full stop before the recapitulation begins. Other pianists (Sviatoslav Richter comes to mind) have approached the work this way, but perhaps nobody has taken the slow movement as slowly as Buniatishvili does: she takes more than 14 minutes with it, where most pianists take nine or ten. The last two movements are more conventional, and they can't quite cash the checks that the enormous first two movements are writing. This is a case where your mileage (kilometers?) may definitely vary, but where the artist definitely hasn't made safe choices.© TiVo
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Schubert: Impromptus, D.935 & Piano Sonata, D.960

Dasol Kim

Solo Piano - Released September 8, 2023 | Aparté

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Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8 "Unfinished"

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released January 1, 1979 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schubert : Des fragments aux étoiles

Shani Diluka

Solo Piano - Released September 3, 2015 | Mirare

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Schubert: Piano Works 1822-1828

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released January 1, 1989 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 3

City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Symphonies - Released April 14, 2023 | Chandos

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With the third volume in their survey of Schubert's Symphonies, Edward Gardner and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra present the composer's First and Fourth symphonies, with the Overture to his final complete opera, Fierrabras, D. 796, rounding out the program. While the Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82, and Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417 ("Tragic"), aren't heard as often or as popular as his "Great" and "Unfinished" symphonies, there are plenty of recording options available for these works, and listener opinions are sure to vary as to Gardner's approach and the full complement of the City of Birmingham Symphony. The overall performance of the Symphony No. 1 is a little heavy, skewing to the more robust Romantic-era orchestral sound, though there are wonderful performances contained within. While the Symphony No. 1 looks back to the writings of Mozart and Haydn, similar to early Beethoven, the Symphony No. 4 (from a whole three years later!) finds a much more welcoming soundscape from Gardner and the orchestra. These forces align well for the Fierrabras Overture, and its inclusion offers a glimpse at this remarkable composer's growth over a ten-year span. Schubert suffered another disappointment with Fierrabras, and like much of his oeuvre, it has seen periods of neglect. However, one hopes this recording puts the Overture on the radar of those looking to offer something a little different in a program of Romantic orchestral works. © Keith Finke /TiVo
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Schubert: Piano Works

Lars Vogt

Classical - Released October 14, 2016 | Ondine

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Schubert on Tape

Edna Stern

Classical - Released February 4, 2022 | Orchid Classics

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Pianist Edna Stern offers her interpretations of the music of Schubert via a refreshing and personal method of recording, using analogue tape to record single takes of each piece in order to present the most honest and immediate performance possible. This ethos grew out of early experiences of hearing her own recordings: "I was shocked to encounter an interpretation that I myself could never have played or even imagined", and it was this that prompted Edna Stern "to go back to a mode of recording practice that would more faithfully do justice to the music and Schubert’s humane masterpieces in particular". The masterpieces heard on this album are Schubert’s Four Impromptus and Six Moments musicaux, works that lend themselves to, or even demand, performances of truthfulness and spontaneity. Edna Stern grew up listening to her favorite artists on tape, and so it seemed natural to look to this medium in order to achieve a similar quality in her own album. This recording is made directly to tape, without any editing, with the result that we hear Stern’s Schubert unvarnished, in all its humanity and warmth. As she puts it: "There is a sense of freedom – even of danger – with the human and all their flaws. There is a coherent continuation of movement. Moreover, there is a sense of life". © Orchid Classics
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Schubert: Octet in F Major, D. 803

Philharmonic Ensemble Berlin

Classical - Released March 1, 2024 | Indésens Calliope Records

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Schubert: Die Freunde von Salamanka, D. 326; Der Spiegelritter, D. 11

Edith Mathis

Classical - Released February 23, 2024 | Archiv Produktion

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Brahms: Ballades - Schubert & Beethoven : Sonatas

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Classical - Released January 1, 1999 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Alkan: Paraphrases, Marches & Symphonie for Solo Piano, Op. 39

Mark Viner

Classical - Released January 29, 2021 | Piano Classics

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The latest volume in a revelatory Alkan series from an English pianist with a string of critically acclaimed albums of rare repertoire from the Golden Age of the piano virtuoso to his credit. Perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the history of music as a whole, let alone the 19th century, Charles-Valentin Alkan remains one of the most intriguing and alluring names among the pantheon of pianist-composers. According to Franz Liszt, Alkan possessed the finest technique he had ever seen yet preferred the life of a recluse. The outstanding masterpiece of the album is the Symphonie for solo piano which Alkan drew from his set of 12 Studies, Op. 39. It opens with an Allegro which is one of the composer’s most darkly impassioned conceptions, in which declamatory rhetoric, passionate outbursts and towering climaxes are all bound by a tightly organised structure. The piano writing is distinctly orchestral in nature, hence the ‘symphonic’ designation, demanding that the intrepid soloist make his or her way through towering conglomerations of sometimes ten note chords, thick, chordal tremoli and volleys of double octaves: only fully accredited virtuosi need apply! The Symphonie is placed on this album as the climax to a sequence of grand marches conceived on a similarly grand scale. They include the Three Cavalry Marches, Op. 39, which find Alkan at his most concise, in the Berliozian No. 1, his most eccentric (the trio of No. 2) and whimsical (No. 3). Like them, the Marche funèbre, Op. 26 bears witness to Alkan’s ability to channel a latent and, at times, menacing power through material of the slightest substance. The following Marche triomphale, Op. 27 is a massive, swaggering affair, in contrast to the ruminative melancholy of the opening paraphrase Op. 45 on a poem by Legouvé set in a cemetery and cast in Alkan’s most elegiac vein. A profound sadness also inflects the opening section of the composer’s ingenious instrumental setting of Psalm 137, ‘By the waters of Babylon’. The booklet contains an excellent essay on Alkan and his works by the artist himself. © Piano Classics
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Schubert & Beethoven

Grigory Sokolov

Classical - Released January 15, 2016 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schubert: Piano Works, Trout Quintet, Lieder

Artur Schnabel

Classical - Released August 24, 2018 | Warner Classics

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