Browse: Gramophone Awards, Schubert (composer)

Kaufmann has come to this music at the right time...Each of these 24 songs is stamped with integrity and seriousness of purpose...The most striking qualities are its artless simplicity, its vocal... — Financial Times, 22nd February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Lewis-Osborne duo establishes a slyly (or should that be shyly?) wistful mood in the Andante varie in B minor, revels in the bravura writing of the Variations in A flat...and transforms the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christian Gerhaher is one of the most exciting German baritones on the Lieder scene at the moment, with his outstanding natural voice, immaculately groomed to enable a powerful musical sculpting... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here we get all of Schubert's works written for violin and piano, in performances which it is hard to imagine ever being bettered...Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien don't attempt to make... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Wonderful performances: delicacy in the Mozart as well as a feel for the Sonata's near-orchestral scale. A magisterial reading of Schubert's Fantasie. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Pavel Haas Quartet, with the superb extra cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, even succeed where most other ensembles fail, making the last movement of the String Quintet into something that seems... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 More…

Gerhaher’s outstanding qualities – a heavenly baritone, crisp diction, intelligent address – once again find an echo in Huber’s pianism. — Financial Times, 26th July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Abbado] reaches extraordinary heights…every bar surges with energy, thrust, warmth of tone, miraculous detail in even the faster passages and…a huge joy in living, which must leave every sensitive... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…