A guide to one of Franz Schubert’s defining song cycles with background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.
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Review: This Be Her Verse – Golda Schultz, Soprano
Soprano Golda Schultz explores the female voice across time and perspective in a feature of works by Clara Schumann, Nadia Boulanger and others.
Review: Schubert – Winterreise – Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu perform a hallmark of the Romantic lied cycle, Schubert’s Winterreise.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, November 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Year In Review – Our Top 10 Classical Albums for 2020
We go over a lot of classical music albums during the year, so when 2020 comes to an end it’s time for members of The Classic Review staff to pick their favorite albums of the year.
Review: Schubert – Die schöne Müllerin – Bostridge, Giorgini
Ian Bostridge returns to Schubert’s song cycle with pianist Saskia Giorgini, in a new live recording from London’s Wigmore Hall.
Review: Beethoven – Songs and Folksongs – Bostridge, Pappano
Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano perform Beethoven’s “An die Ferne Geliebte” and a selection of the composer’s arrangement of Irish and Scottish folksongs.
Review: Songs By Sir Hamilton Harty – Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn
This new album contains 17 new premier recording of songs by the Irish composer (Somm Recordings, 2020).
My Collection: Kilian Herold, Clarinet
Clarinet player Kilian Herold writes for The Classic Review about three classical music albums he couldn’t live without.
Review: “The Divine Muse” – Mary Bevan – Soprano, Joseph Middleton – Piano
Soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton perform songs by Haydn, Schubert and Wolf.
