Your basket is empty

Categories:
Narrow my search:

Results 1 to 20 out of a total of 6382
From
HI-RES$26.29
CD$22.59

Schubert : Sonatas & Impromptus

András Schiff

Solo Piano - Released April 12, 2019 | ECM New Series

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions 5 de Diapason - Gramophone Editor's Choice - 5 Sterne Fono Forum Klassik
For a truly great interpretation it’s not enough just to play a historical instrument, the playing also has to be up to scratch. This recording released by the world-renowned label ECM showcases a pianist of the highest calibre playing the wonderful Viennese Brodmann piano. András Schiff captures the convergence of thought and sound remarkably well and seldom before have we been given so much insight into Schubert’s innermost thoughts. The softness and the unmistakable legato that the pianist produces on this Viennese instrument give the Sonatas D. 958 and D. 959 an indescribable feeling of nostalgia. But Schubert’s inward revolt was growing and András Schiff leads us steadily to the edge of the abyss. The crystalline sounds of the Scherzo in the Sonata D. 959 are as enchanting as the sound of ancient harpists who were so often depicted by German Romantics. This exploration into sound is also marvellous in the Impromptus D. 899 and the 3 Klavierstücke D. 946 or “Three Piano Pieces”, which have a very expressive counterpoint that differ from the unfathomable depth of the sonatas. This album is a revelation into a whole new world of sound that is unveiled as András Schiff’s fingers touch the keys. Inspiring. © François Hudry/Qobuz
From
HI-RES$17.99
CD$13.49

Schubert - Meta

Claire Huangci

Classical - Released October 20, 2023 | Berlin Classics

Hi-Res
From
HI-RES$17.59
CD$15.09

Schubert: Forellenquintett - Trout Quintet

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Quintets - Released November 3, 2017 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Hi-Res Booklet
It is not just a matter of showbiz that sees the names of Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniil Trifonov written in big letters on the cover of this CD (well... even bigger than Schubert's name, but let's let that lie): in fact, they play on all the pieces in the album, and in particular the famous Trout Quintet (wiith Hwayoon Lee on the viola, Roman Patkoló on the double bass and Maximilian Hornung on the cello), but also the movement of trio D 897, "Notturno" - whose name was added by an editor, whereas it appears that this was a movement originally written for the trio in B flat then set aside - and the two Lieder adapted for violin and piano respectively, by Jascha Heifetz and Mischa Elman. First among equals, Mutter leads proceedings with both energy and a delicate touch, and it's a safe bet that although this is only the latest in a long line of recordings of this quicksilver masterpiece by Schubert, it will soon find a prominent place in the discographic hall of fame. © SM/Qobuz
From
HI-RES$17.59
CD$15.09

Discovering Mendelssohn

Christian Li

Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

Hi-Res
Teenage violinist Christian Li has thus far recorded mostly well-trodden repertory, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, certainly falls into that category. It is the centerpiece of Discovering Mendelssohn, but the program is filled out with a variety of materials that trace the cosmopolitan Mendelssohn's travels and also revive the 19th century type of concert, with orchestral and violin-and-piano pieces cheek by jowl, as well as a few audience-friendly arrangements of songs with and without words that include Yinuo Mu's harp and Xuefei Yang's guitar (in the charming concluding Venetian Gondola Song). This shows growth on Li's part, as does his confident rapport with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis, but really, the key to the album's success is that Li's performance of the Violin Concerto stands out from the crowd. He gets but does not overdo the sentiment in the big tunes, and he has an attractive precision in the high notes. Li places proper emphasis on the unusually placed cadenza in the concerto's first movement, loosening up and giving it improvisatory flair. He includes pieces by Mozart, Bach, and Schubert, all of which have more or less definite connections to Mendelssohn; this, too, supports the effort to create the atmosphere of a concert of Mendelssohn's time. An exciting young player takes a definite step forward with this enjoyable release. This album landed on classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
From
CD$10.79

Quintessence Schubert: Complete Symphonies, Rosamunde

Staatskapelle Dresden

Classical - Released October 1, 2019 | Brilliant Classics

Booklet
From
HI-RES$17.59
CD$15.09

Schubert: Impromptus, D. 935; Pieces, D. 946; Variations, D. 576

Steven Osborne

Classical - Released September 25, 2015 | Hyperion

Hi-Res Booklet
From
HI-RES$15.98
CD$11.98

Schubert: Impromptus, D.935 & Piano Sonata, D.960

Dasol Kim

Solo Piano - Released September 8, 2023 | Aparté

Hi-Res Booklet
From
HI-RES$18.09
CD$15.69

Schubert

Khatia Buniatishvili

Solo Piano - Released March 15, 2019 | Sony Classical

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions 5 Sterne Fono Forum Klassik
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
From
HI-RES$11.49
CD$9.19

Franz Schubert : Sonate Arpeggione

Anne Gastinel

Chamber Music - Released September 20, 2005 | naïve classique

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions Gramophone Editor's Choice - RTL d'Or - Victoire de la musique
From
HI-RES$17.99
CD$13.49

Der Tod und das Mädchen & Songs

Goldmund Quartet

Classical - Released May 26, 2023 | Berlin Classics

Hi-Res
From
CD$37.59

Schubert: Piano Works 1822-1828

Alfred Brendel

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

Booklet Distinctions Choc de Classica
From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Schubert: Piano Works

Lars Vogt

Classical - Released October 14, 2016 | Ondine

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions 5 de Diapason
From
HI-RES$31.79
CD$24.59

Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet

Julian Prégardien

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Alpha Classics

Hi-Res Booklet
Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. The fourteen songs, by turns light-hearted, sombre and melancholy, are settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl. In the summer of the same year he composed his String Quintet in C major, scored for two cellos, which was not premiered until 1850, at the Vienna Musikverein. The power and orchestral dimensions of the work make it a pinnacle of nineteenth-century chamber music. We could not have dreamt of a finer line-up of musicians to record these two Schubert monuments. Fanny Mendelssohn’s Schwanenlied (also to words by Heinrich Heine) completes the programme, along with Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words No. 1 (for solo piano), composed a year after Schubert’s death and Schubert’s own setting of an unrelated Schwanengesang (D. 744, on a poem by Johann Senn). © Alpha Classics
From
HI-RES$17.49
CD$13.99

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 & 21, Impromptu No. 4

Sviatoslav Richter

Classical - Released October 1, 2012 | Praga Digitals

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions Diapason d'or
From
CD$9.19

Schubert: Arpeggione, Sonatina & Lieder Transcriptions

Anne Gastinel

Classical - Released September 20, 2005 | naïve

From
HI-RES$15.56
CD$12.45

Schubert on Tape

Edna Stern

Classical - Released February 4, 2022 | Orchid Classics

Hi-Res Booklet
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
From
HI-RES$8.89
CD$7.19

Schubert: Octet in F Major, D. 803

Philharmonic Ensemble Berlin

Classical - Released March 1, 2024 | Indésens Calliope Records

Hi-Res Booklet
From
HI-RES$15.79
CD$13.59

Schubert: Piano Sonata in E Flat Major; 6 Moments Musicaux

Mitsuko Uchida

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

Hi-Res