Search - Franz Schubert, Gyorgy Pauk, Susanne Lautenbacher :: Schubert: Chamber Music

Fantastic...a great collection, with fine recordings

06/20/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These masterpieces are like the small but magnificent paintings that outshine larger, grandiose canvases. Susanne Lautenbacher plays the Rondo, Polonaise(a truly lovely composition), and Konzertstuck with a real sense of lyricism. The other selections are also well done. Pauk and Frankl make a shining team, with Pauk giving a real showstopper performance in the Rondo Brillant. Olevsky and Hautzig play the Arpeggione with passion. The sound quality is good. Schubert's genius really speaks through his chamber music. The essay that comes in the information booklet is useful and engaging, providing historical background for these selections."

VOX does it again...

Phillip J. Rodgers | West Central GA USA | 07/06/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Franz Schubert continued to grow as an artist. One can only wonder what he might have accomplished if he had lived as long as a Liszt. Some of Scubert's most delightful music was composed for various chamber ensembles. These CDs are a real bargin. The sound is good and the performances are very good. Especially noteworthy are violinist Gyorgy Pauk and pianist Peter Frankl who shine in Scubert's Rondo Brillant in B minor and his late (Written in December of 1827. It is quite substantial - comparable to the Wanderer Fantasy for Piano) Fantasy on "Sei mir gegrusst" Op. Posth. 159. I prefer their performance of the piece to Stern and Barenboim on Sony. If you like Schubert, or just want some impeccable dinner music then you will not go wrong with these CDs."

The prejudice: the eldest son of the ignorance!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 08/11/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The historical disdain around Schubert's minor works has remained through all these years. At the bottom of this reckless opinion there's a visible prejudice, product of a mental laziness and the well known tendency to just follow the guides of musical critics as if we are talking about fashions or gastronomical information. Far beyond the artistic efforts of foregoing filmmakers (Walt Disney with Fantasia or Milos Forman with Amadeus) in order to bring the great public the marvelous musical universe behind the handled term of "classical music". As a matter of fact,there are three visible evidences in the recent past that validate this statement: the worldwide diffusion of the Gregorian Chants, the emergence of Gorecki's Third Symphony and the massive and successful mass phenomenon of "The Three tenors" in Italy 1990.



These works for violin and strings not only carve in relief the melodic inventiveness of this beloved composer, they are possessed of enticingly Mozartian taste and even preannounce Mendelssohn in more of one aspect.



Please, risk and convince by yourself about the radiant vitality and vibrant spontaneity of these unknown pieces that should deserve a major attention by the great audiences.



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