Schubert Piano Recordings

[The new erato]

part male songs.

Part male? Is that an eunuch?

[Harry]

Part [songs for males]? Is that an eunuch?

[Valentino]

The Hagen Quartet in the G major D.887 and the string quintet.
Sinopoli an C. Kleiber in the Unfinished.
Solti in the Great C major.
Talich Quartet in Death and the Maiden.

There's a enormous hole where my lieder collection should have been. I'll get there.

[Grazioso]

Jandö's Laserlight disc of Impromptus and Moments Musicaux
Jon Vickers's harrowing, mesmerizing Winterreise on VAI
The Kodaly/Jandö Trout Quintet on Naxos
Wunderlich's Die schöne Müllerin on DG--what a glorious voice!
Bostridge's first EMI volume of Schubert Lieder--lots of the "greatest hits"--Bostridge can sound a bit prissy and fussy, but he has a fine voice and great intelligence

[ChamberNut]

Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio

String Quartets - Melos Quartet

String Quintet - Emerson String Quartet with M. Rostropovich

[George]

Piano Trios - Trio de Trieste

Quartets - Lindsays

Impromptus - Pires, Brendel or Lupu

Sonatas - Richter, Richter and Richter. 

Trout Quintet - Schiff and Hagen

Symphonies - Boehm

[BorisG]

[Que]

Now available on Brilliant:



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[FideLeo]

[Morigan]

Quite obviously

[Holden]

I just love Schubert and mainly because he is a natural composer of beautiful melodies. I could fill this whole thread with the recordings but here are a very special select few.

Piano sonata D894 - Richter
Piano sonata D906 - Haskil, Schnabel (or if you want stereo - Kovacevich)
Leider - Ann Murray/Graeme Johnson (Hyperion Vol 3)
Piano trios - BAT
Symphony #9 either Abbado/COE or Leibowitz RPO
Symphony #8 - Sinopoli
String Quintet - Hollywood SQ
String Quartet - (Death and the Maiden) Hollywood SQ
Piano Quintet - (Trout) Schnabel/Pro Arte SQ
Winterreise - DF-D/Moore

[Don]

For the Piano Trios, I'm partial to La Gaia Scienza (period instruments) on Winter & Winter.

[MN Dave]

All the ones I've heard. 

[Peregrine]

For piano Sonatas:

D960: Richter, Afanassiev, Sofronitsky, Sokolov
D959: Lupu, Sokolov
D958: Richter
D940: Richter/Britten, Gilels/Gilels - still not heard Perahia/Lupu, but everyone raves about it...
D894: Richter, Afanassiev, Lupu, Sokolov
D850: Richter, Gilels
D845: Richter, Bashkirov
D840: Richter
D760  'Wanderer': Richter
D784: Richter, Lupu
D664: Richter
D625: Richter
D575: Richter

Still not sold on Schnabel, but think it's gonna' happen sometime soon...Pollini and Leonskaja have also done well with the sonatas.

String Quartets:

I like the Hungarian SQ on EMI Gemini and a begrudging nod to the Italians on Philips duo, but don't miss an intense Juilliard SQ 'Death and the Maiden' on Testament (coupled with an equally impressive Beethoven, Op.131 - the best!). Whilst second the impressive Hollywood SQ recording of the quintet, also on Testament.

Trios - Beaux Arts, definitely!

Not so hot on symphonic works, but like Toscanini for 8 and 9, Wand and Beecham in the earlier symphonies...

[George]

Still not sold on Schnabel, but think it's gonna' happen sometime soon...

Why?

I am not sold on him, either.

[Lilas Pastia]

Jon Vickers's harrowing, mesmerizing Winterreise on VAI

Caramba! You have that!!  It's one of those special recordings that never seem to be available (I only heard half a dozen songs on a radio program )

[Lilas Pastia]

Good thread. Schubert can use some pushing .

I'll only mention recordings that illuminate some great works in a very special way:

- The magical Elly Ameling HM song recital, with the most enchanting Der Hirt auf dem Felsen ever.

- The splendiferous and brilliant Rilling Galicia S.O. recording of symphonies 1 and 2.

- The gutsy, dramatic Quartett Collegium Aureum recording of the d minor Quartet ("Der Tod und das Mädchen"). OOP

- The magisterial, intense and achingly beautiful Unfinished of Jochum (Concertgebouw Orch).

For the piano sonatas I have no special favourite - there are just too many: these are inexhaustible works. But I have a soft spot for the work that made me discover them: the A major, D. 959. That was in Bresson's film Au hasard, Balthazar (the andantino is the recurring theme). I don't know which recording was used in the film, but among dozens I've heard, Brendel's mix of pudeur and tragedy fits best with these two unforgettable works.

- A special word for a special work: Ständchen, maybe Schubert's most purple plum in a very large basket. I think this short work epitomizes everything that makes Schubert one of music's greatest geniuses. A particularly lambent and searching interpretation will be found in this recording

[val]

Bogey

Been listening to Schubert here and there over the past few days and was wondering what specific recordings that you own that you enjoy, especially outside of his 8th Symphony. 

Some of my favorite recordings:

Symphonies 3, 5, 6  / Beecham, RPO
Symphony 8            / Mravinski, Leningrad
Symphony 9           / Krips, LSO and Walter, Columbia
String Quintet         / Weller Quartet, Gurtler
Quartets 13, 14, 15  / Alban Berg Quartet
Trio opus 100          / Adolf and Hermann Busch, Rudolf Serkin
Fantasia for violin and piano  / Adolf Busch, Serkin
Fantasia for piano 4 hands / Perahia, Lupu
Piano Sonata D 850  / Curzon
Piano Sonatas D 959, 960  / Rudolf Serkin
Lieder                    / Elisabeth Schumann
Die schöne Müllerin   / Patzak, Rauscheizen
Winterreise              / Souzay, Baldwin
Schwangesang         / Fischer Dieskau, Moore
Mass D 678              / Gardiner
Mass D 950              / Sawallisch

[Grazioso]

Caramba! You have that!!  It's one of those special recordings that never seem to be available (I only heard half a dozen songs on a radio program )

It's available from Amazon.com for $21.98.

[George]

I just remembered that we already have a thread for this.

Perhaps a merge is in order?