SACD, Schubert (composer)

There’s real musicality here at the service of imaginative phrasing, with just enough added force to keep everything animated. A “Great” Symphony without longueurs is rare but this is one. — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

beautifully and practically presented, while the performances, the performances, especially of the early symphonies, Nos 1-6, are miraculously alert and affectionately Viennese in style. Harnoncourt’s... — Sunday Times, 1st October 2017 More…

An excellent issue of distinctive performances in a relatively rare coupling. Vivid recording in Super Audio. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 More…

Jacobs locates the music firmly among the great 19th-century symphonic tradition, and his admiration for it can be heard in these performances...Jacobs’s interpretations certainly aren’t without... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The CBSO plays admirably throughout, and the Chandos recording is attractively spacious. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

A dramatically convincing, unassuming account [of the Unfinished]...‘The Great ’ – the Ninth – in C major is equally pacily driven when required. There is an echo of Janowski’s facility with... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Roman Simovic has a tendency to launch phrases with a penetrating sniff but secures characterful and energetic results, the very occasional imprecision let through in the interests of emotional... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

While I’m instinctively sceptical about instrumental transcriptions of vocal works, I was persuaded by how well they work here, and the subtlety and intelligence of the performances…And in this... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…