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A guide to one of Franz Schubert’s defining song cycles with background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.

Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu perform a hallmark of the Romantic lied cycle, Schubert’s Winterreise.

Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs Schubert’s D. 899 Impromptus and revisits the D. 780 Moments Musicaux.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is accompanied by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the piano, in Schubert’s “Winterreise”.

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The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.

Quatuor Arod and the Signum Quartett both play Schubert’s famous “Death and the Maiden” String Quartet with other works by Schubert.

Ian Bostridge returns to Schubert’s song cycle, in a new live recording from London’s Wigmore Hall.

Seong Jin-Cho performs Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasy”, Berg’s Piano Sonata Op.1 and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor.

Clarinet player Kilian Herold writes for The Classic Review about three classical music albums he couldn’t live without.

Soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton perform songs by Haydn, Schubert and Wolf.