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Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 14 & 9 / Chiaroscuro Quartet

BIS

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Nov 02, 2018

One of the truly iconic works in the repertoire for string quartet, Franz Schubert’s Death and the Maiden is named after the song which has lent its theme to the second movement. At the end of Matthias Claudius’s poem, which Schubert had set as a 20-year-old in 1817, Death cradles the Maiden in his bony embrace. And her fear, in the first verse, of encountering his tomb-cold touch is mirrored by his desire for her in the second. In Schubert’s lifetime, death was a constant presence in everyday life and even a young person like himself would have encountered it at close quarters – in fact, his own mother had passed away when he was only 15. When Schubert returns to the song in 1824 and starts work on the string quartet, death has nevertheless grown even more real: in the meantime he has become acquainted with pain and disease during the bouts of the syphilis that he knows will kill him. He turns the song into a set of variations, preceding it with a ferocious Allegro, and following it with a Scherzo and a Finale that have been described as ‘the dance of the demon fiddler’ and ‘a dance with death’. The acclaimed Chiaroscuro Quartet performs the work on gut strings, which brings out the vulnerability and desperation even further. The players then let us down gently with the youthful String Quartet No.?9 in G minor, a work in which the minor key offers Schubert the opportunity to play with light and shadows, rather than full-scale drama.

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With their ‘period’ sound world (gut strings, Classical bows, sharp articulation) allied to hungry tempos and phrasing that vaults across the bar line, Schubert’s darkest quartet seems more than ever a study in the inexorable power of rhythm. Their unvarnished sonorities (vibrato minimal or non-existent) make Schubert’s harmonic clashes all the more excruciating. It is also, properly, a drama of uncomfortable extremes.

– Gramophone

Light and shade abound in performances of brisk, fierce beauty.

– The Strad

Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 14 & 9 / Chiaroscuro Quartet

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BIS

Nov 02, 2018

BIS-2268

Tzimon Barto: The Schubert Album

Capriccio

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May 25, 2010

Classical Music

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Capriccio

May 25, 2010

C5028

Schubert: Symphonies - The "Unfinished" & "Great" / Janowski, Dresden Philharmonic

PENTATONE

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May 26, 2023

Marek Janowski presents his first purely-orchestral Schubert recording, together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, performing the composer’s two final, groundbreaking and most famous symphonies. While the two movements of the “Unfinished” symphony in B Minor reach a level of perfection despite the work’s apparent incompleteness, Robert Schumann praised the “Great” symphony in C Major for its “heavenly length”. Janowski’s interpretation combines a sense of tradition with vitality and intensity.

Marek Janowski is one of the most celebrated conductors of our time. After having recorded Schubert songs in orchestrations by Reger and Webern with the tenor Christian Elsner in 2015, Janowski now adds this symphonic Schubert album to his impressive Pentatone discography, following complete recordings of Bruckner, Brahms and Beethoven’s symphonies, several works by Richard Strauss, as well as Wagner’s ten mature operas. He works together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, with whom he already released complete recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio (2021), Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (both 2020).

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PENTATONE

May 26, 2023

PTC5187065

Schubert: Winterreise / Mammel, Schoonderwoerd

Alpha

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Sep 01, 2007

Classical Music

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Schubert: Winterreise / Mammel, Schoonderwoerd

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Alpha

Sep 01, 2007

ALPHA101

Wilhelm Furtwängler & The RAI Orchestra (Live)

MYTO Historical

Available as CD

$10.99

Oct 03, 2009

Wilhelm Furtwängler & The RAI Orchestra (Live)

Wilhelm Furtwängler & The RAI Orchestra (Live)

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MYTO Historical

Oct 03, 2009

MYTO00215

Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra / Appl, Jockel, Munich Radio Orchestra

BR Klassik

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Oct 06, 2023

Time and again, composers – well-known and lesser-known – have arranged Franz Schubert's piano songs for orchestra. These versions are not in any way intended to cast doubt upon the powerful quality of the originals, they merely place them in a different light, and/or attempt to make them easier to perform on a larger scale – when an art song cannot be performed in an intimate salon or chamber music hall, it can also make an impact in a large concert hall.

Baritone Benjamin Appl has compiled nineteen such arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries for this new CD from BR-KLASSIK. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester, conducted by Oscar Jockel, provides accompaniment that is subtle and in keeping with the work. The album is ultimately rounded off by the first recording of Johann von Herbeck’s orchestrations of Schubert's dances, thus establishing a connection between folk music and Schubert's art songs.

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Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra / Appl, Jockel, Munich Radio Orchestra

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BR Klassik

Oct 06, 2023

BRK900346

Schubert, F.: Symphonies / Chamber Music / Piano Music / Lie

Nimbus

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$69.99

Oct 01, 2002

Classical Music

Schubert, F.: Symphonies / Chamber Music / Piano Music / Lie

$69.99
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Nimbus

Oct 01, 2002

NI1766

V7: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS

MDG

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$23.99

Jun 01, 1997

Classical Music

V7: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS

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MDG

Jun 01, 1997

3070607-2

Brahms, Schumann & Schubert: Original Transcriptions for Tru

Delos

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Jan 24, 2025

Trumpet was meant to have a bright future after Handel and Bach, but history decided otherwise. Relegated to a military signal role with timpani, it had to wait until the later Romantic period to flourish once again. A brainchild of Andrew Balio, this album showcases his own transcriptions of works from the golden age of chamber music, inviting trumpeters out of the cold and into the cozy world of Brahms, Schumann, and Schubert. Pianist John Wilson partners Andrew for these new arrangements of Brahms's clarinet sonatas, Schumann's Adagio and Allegro, and Marchenbilder, and Schubert's lied 'Auf dem Strom', in which tenor Nicholas Phan gives voice to the text. Thanks to Andrew, trumpeters and music lovers can now enjoy an expanded repertoire which invites us into an entirely new soundworld.

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Brahms, Schumann & Schubert: Original Transcriptions for Tru

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Delos

Jan 24, 2025

DE 3607

Schubert: Warmth [Sonatas and Variations] / Gaudet

Analekta

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Nov 19, 2021

The new album Schubert: Warmth by pianist Mathieu Gaudet is the fifth volume in his wonderful collection The Complete Sonatas and Major Works for Piano of the great German composer Franz Schubert. While it is true that Schubert’s music is often tinged with a hushed melancholy, at times it is suffused with an optimistic, bountiful light that ardently celebrates life, such as the radiant Sonata No. 16 in D Major, D. 850, the Sonata No. 5 in A-flat Major, D. 557 and The Variations in A Minor, D. 576 offered on this new album.

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Schubert: Warmth [Sonatas and Variations] / Gaudet

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Analekta

Nov 19, 2021

AN29185

Schubert & Purcell: String Trios

Resonus Classics

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Jun 16, 2023

In their debut album, the Sakuntala Trio presents the world premiere recording of Franz Schubert’s String Trio in B-flat major, D.471, in this innovative and compelling completion by Professor Brian Newbould. Of this first trio, only the first movement and the beginning of the slow movement, were penned by Schubert, before he abandoned the work, leaving a gem of a fragment. The album also features the second version of Schubert’s String Trio in B-flat major, D.581, together with a selection of Peter Warlock’s transcriptions of Henry Purcell’s Three-Part Fantasias.

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Schubert & Purcell: String Trios

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Resonus Classics

Jun 16, 2023

RES10320

Bizet, Choveaux, Mozart & Schubert: Piano Duet

Ars Produktion

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Nov 18, 2022

Despite their young age, Zala Kravos and her younger brother Val are outstanding pianists performing all over the world since many years. They regularly impress professionals and the audience by their talent and musical maturity. They are soloists but often play together the repertoire for piano duo and their fusional relationship is particularly striking. In 2019, they obtained a diploma in chamber music as a piano duo at the Conservatory of the City of Luxembourg. The present release is their first on Ars Produktion. The album with music for piano duo, including a composition written by a contemporary French composer especially for them.

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Bizet, Choveaux, Mozart & Schubert: Piano Duet

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Ars Produktion

Nov 18, 2022

ARS38756

DEATH OF THE MAIDEN

Urania Records

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Jan 01, 2008

DEATH OF THE MAIDEN

DEATH OF THE MAIDEN

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Urania Records

Jan 01, 2008

URN22.357

Vasks & Schubert: In Evening Light / Bohren, Bolkhovets, Munich Chamber Orchestra

Avie Records

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Apr 26, 2024

Sebastian Bohren’s world-premiere recording of “In Evening Light”, the second violin concerto by Pēteris Vasks, comes 25 years after the celebrated Latvian composer’s first, “Distant Light”, one of the most successful, oft-performed and recorded concertos by a living composer. “In Evening Light” seems certain to follow in its forebear’s footsteps, destined to become another modern classic.

“In Evening Light” – a three-movement, 38-minute work – is beautiful and contemplative, evoking a twilit world immersed in muted colours and permeated with deep shadows and dramatic contrasts. The album ends as it begins, with another atmospheric Vasks work. “Lonely Angel” is an homage to his late mother who lived through practically the whole of the 20th century. The composer explains, “This piece is the vision of an angel flying alone above humankind, filled with grief at how cruel and aggressive we are to each other. Like a guardian angel he touches the earth with his wings and in that way offers us comfort and healing.”

Sandwiched in between is the contrasting, classical-era Rondo in B minor by Franz Schubert, arranged for violin and strings. Preceding Vasks’ works by nearly two centuries, Schubert similarly revels in exploring ambiance and spaciousness.

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Vasks & Schubert: In Evening Light / Bohren, Bolkhovets, Munich Chamber Orchestra

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Avie Records

Apr 26, 2024

AV2662

Schubert & Ichmouratov: Works for Strings / Gilman, LGT Young Soloists

Naxos

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Jul 12, 2024

Airat Ichmouratov's Concerto Grosso No. 3 subtitled 'Liechtenstein' is a world premiere recording and was composed specifically for Alexander Gilman and the LGT Young Soloists, one of the world's most successful touring youth orchestras. Mahler's arrangement of Schubert's Death and the Maiden string quartet expands it into a grand orchestral spectacle.