Schubert

András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 18, 2024
András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)

András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:46 | 288 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 440 310-2

This set of recordings, as testified to by Mr. Cesar above, are simply breathtaking, individually, and as a complete traversal of Schubert's finest work for solo instrument. His painstaking preparation and studious forethought shine through clearly, illuminating and bringing to us deeply introspective yet fleet traversals of this amazingly sad, yet wistful, ponderously illuminated and wonderously elated and shot-through, delicately, with wispy tenderness, are simply positive testament to the caliber of this great artist.
Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)

Jos van Immerseel, L'Archibudelli - Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione; Notturno (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 342 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 63361 | Recorded: 1997

Schubert's quintet (which gets its name from his song "The Trout," used for a set of variations at its apex) is as lighthearted as it is melodious, qualities reflected in this excellent performance. The period-instrument balances are ideal; the fortepiano, less resonant than a modern piano, does not overpower the strings. The arpeggione was an odd, newly invented six-stringed instrument when Schubert wrote for it. The lovely sonata is here played on an obsolete five-stringed instrument, the violoncello piccolo–closer to the original than the modern cello or viola usually heard on recordings. The "Notturno" is a haunting movement, probably intended for a larger work.
Raymond Leppard, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra - Schubert: Overture 'In the Italian Style', Symphony No. 3, Grand Duo (1991)

Raymond Leppard, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra - Franz Schubert: Overture 'In the Italian Style', Symphony No. 3, Grand Duo (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 71:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Koss Classics | # KC 2221 | Recorded: 1990

While still a controversial matter, there seems to be general agreement that Schubert's "Grand Duo" is a symphony that the composer failed to find time to orchestrate (or perhaps a piano reduction of one which he actually did orchestrate). In any case, there isn't a trace of piano style in the music, and in any of its various orchestral arrangements it makes a fully mature Schubert orchestral work. Raymond Leppard's performance is a very fine one, and it's excellently recorded. Along with a jaunty performance of the zippy Third Symphony, this disc makes a very appealing novelty.

Serena Malfi, Douglas Boyd - Schubert: Rosamunde (2011)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 21, 2024
Serena Malfi, Douglas Boyd - Schubert: Rosamunde (2011)

Serena Malfi, Douglas Boyd - Schubert: Rosamunde (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 58:06 | 226 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Scene | Catalog: MDG9011633

Hearing the three dramatic chords that open the Zauberharfe overture played by this excellent Swiss orchestra (the oldest in Switzerland) I was immediately struck by the clarity of attack and rich instrumental color. As the performance progresses the Musikkollegium Winterthur exhibits an alluring full-bodied tone and characterful playing completely in the Schubertian style. The same goes for the pensive B minor Entr’acte, the lovely Entr’acte 3, and the charming No. 9 Ballet.

Jessye Norman - Schubert: Lieder (1985)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 20, 2024
Jessye Norman - Schubert: Lieder (1985)

Jessye Norman - Schubert: Lieder (1985)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 42:30 | 181 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Philips | Catalog: 412623

I can claim possibly some very small influence on this record. Some years ago Jessye Norman broke the last and very difficult phrase of Ganymed with a breath. I then pointed out in a review that Gerald Moore (in Singer and Accompanist London: 1953) had urged singers to phrase it in one as Norman has done in recitals, and now on record, ever since. Cause and effect? I don't know. This is, in any case, one of the most rewarding performances on the record, sung with conviction and, throughout, with long-breathed phrasing.

The Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: The Two Piano Quartets (2005)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 14, 2024
The Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: The Two Piano Quartets (2005)

The Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: The Two Piano Quartets (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 267 MB | 01:04:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Nimbus Alliance

Warmhearted but clear-eyed, the Schubert Ensemble of London's recordings of the Piano Quartets of Fauré are anything but French performances. Where French performers can parse their emotions down to the most infinitesimal gradation of feeling but are intellectually profoundly superficial, these English performers are intellectually clear and lucid, but their interpretations are still deeply felt.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Daniel Barenboim - Franz Schubert: 'Winterreise' (1980) Reissue 2013 [Re-Up]

Franz Schubert: 'Winterreise' (1980) Reissue 2013
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Daniel Barenboim, piano. Recorded 1979
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 248 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 178 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 478 5186 | Time: 01:13:06

Schubert knew madness. He knew it to the depths of his soul and feared it. And out of his fear he wrote the greatest monument to love lost, to death lost, to madness found. He wrote Die Winterreise, the most hopeless art work ever conceived by the despairing mind of man. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the voice of Winterreise. In small part, this is because he recorded it seven times between 1952 and 1990. In larger part, this is because he is able to transform himself into the despairing lover. Yet Fischer-Dieskau is still the most lucid and most technically controlled of madmen. As Ingmar Bergman remarked on actor Max von Sydow, "If I'd had a psychopath to present these deeply psychopathic roles, it would have been unbearable". At 55, Fischer-Dieskau returned to Winterreise in 1980, no longer the sad swain or the suicidal lover, but as a man bowed with age and burdened with an interpretive past. His voice far past freshness, Fischer-Dieskau still has something to say concerning Winterreise, indeed, about man's fate. Accompanied by the self-effacing Daniel Barenboim, Fischer-Dieskau sings of the meaninglessness of love of the pointlessness of life.
Imre Rohmann & Andras Schiff - Franz Schubert: Piano Duets (1994)

Imre Rohmann & Andras Schiff - Franz Schubert: Piano Duets (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 222 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 161 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hungaroton | # HCD 11941 | Time: 00:56:18

How poor the piano literature for four hands would be without Schubert! This musical form is indebted to him for its most significant enrichment — ranging from the popular marches to works of virtually symphonic size. The roots of the genre sprang from different soils. Schubert's musical invention was so prolific that often the two hands of a pianist proved to be insufficient, and thus the performance of complicated counterpoint, the countless subsidiary themes and delicate harmonic details demanded two pianists and four hands, resembling the four parts of a string quartet.
Thomas Larcher - Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert: Klavierstucke (1999)

Thomas Larcher - Arnold Schönberg, Franz Schubert: Klavierstücke (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 162 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 155 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1667, 465 136-2 | 01:04:28

Consummation. This is what the piano music of Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) and Franz Schubert (1979-1828) have in common, the bridge that Thomas Larcher brings to this welcoming solo recital, his first for ECM. To underscore this point, he shuffles Schönberg’s Klavierstücke op. 11 with Schubert’s posthumous Klavierstücke D 946. By turns halting and didactic, the opening pairing opens into the fresh air of Schubert’s precisely syncopated revelry. The contrasts between the two composers are obvious to the ear, but to the heart Schönberg is an extended exhalation to Schubert’s inhalation. Where Schönberg plots slow, jagged caverns, Schubert runs furtively above ground in the sunshine. Yet both seem so urgent to tell their stories, offering lifelong journeys from relatively young minds.
Schubert - Complete Piano Sonatas On Period Instruments (2013) (Paul Badura-Skoda) (9CD Box Set) **[RE-UP]**

Schubert - Complete Piano Sonatas On Period Instruments (2013) (9CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork, d.booklet | 1884 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 1352 mb
Classical | Label: Arcana - A 364

In this recording of the complete piano sonatas on period instruments, the Viennese master Paul Badura-Skoda delivers the work of a lifetime: Schubert's music with his passion, his suffering, and that inimitable tone which makes his native city the place so essentially and existentially identified with music. This collection of the twenty Sonatas for period piano recorded by Paul Badura-Skoda on the instruments in his own collection has every chance of being considered by posterity as one of the most creative and most significant achievements.