Anne Gastinel, cello
Sonata for arpeggione and piano in A minor (“Arpeggione Sonata”), D. 821
Claire Désert, piano
From Schubert: Arpeggione (2005)
Released by Valois
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
This is a wonderful interpretation of the famous Arpeggione by the French cellist Anne Gastinel: extremely expressive, intimate and enchanting.
Maria João Pires and Ricardo Castro, piano
Fantasia for piano, 4 hands in F minor, D. 940 (Op. 103)
From Résonance de l’Originaire (2005)
Released by Deutsche Grammophon
Schubert: Fantasia for piano
This is one of the most important works for piano that Schubert wrote in 1828, the year he died. He dedicated the Fantaisie to Karoline Esterházy, with whom he was in love.
This rendition, by Pires and Castro, is unique, so delicate and subtle.
Mark Padmore, tenor
Paul Lewis, piano
Winterreise, Song Cycle for Voice & Piano, D. 911 (Op. 89) – Book I, Gute Nacht (‘Fremd bin ich eingezogen’)
From Schubert: Winterreise (2009)
Released by Harmonia Mundi
Schubert: Winterreise, Gute Nacht
Based on poems by Wilhelm Müller.
Every time I listen to Gute Nacht, sung by Mark Padmore with Paul Lewis at the piano, I get goosebumps.
I have never heard this song sung and played with so much intensity and sensibility; there are no words to describe it, the music simply goes straight to your heart.
Heinrich Schiff, cello
Schubert: Quintet in C, D.956, II. Adagio
Alban Berg Quartet
From Schubert Quintet in C (1990)
Released by Angel Records
Schubert: Quintet D956
The String Quintet in C major, D 956, Op.163, was composed during the summer of 1828, two months before his death, and is Schubert’s final instrumental work.
I love the whole piece, but particularly the second Adagio movement, it is like an exchange of intimate confidences.
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