Posted inClassical Music Deutsche Grammophon Pollini, Daniele Pollini, Maurizio Schubert, Franz Maurizio Pollini’s Final Recording, Made With His Son Maurizio Pollini didn’t think his farewell on disc would be an album of music by Schubert with his son, Daniele. Now, it serves as an emotional coda. Posted by By David Allen
Posted inCarnegie Hall Classical Music Danish String Quartet Schubert, Franz Review: Thomas Adès Meets the Profound Beauty of Schubert The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès. Posted by By Joshua Barone
Posted inCarnegie Hall Classical Music Padmore, Mark Schubert, Franz Uchida, Mitsuko Winterreise (Musical Work) ‘Winterreise’ Review: Hiding a Roiling Grief On Friday, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the tenor Mark Padmore illuminated the bleakness of Schubert’s genre-defining song cycle at Zankel Hall. Posted by By Oussama Zahr
Posted inCosta, Silvia LAutre Voyage (Opera) Opera Opera Comique Pichon, Raphael Pygmalion (Music Group) Schubert, Franz Schubert’s Operas Were Failures. Is Their Music Worth Saving? In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Posted by By Joshua Barone