Samuel Hasselhorn: Schubert Hoffnung review – timbral and emotional flexibility is in ample supply

The German baritone’s all-Schubert disc with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz is full of communicative diction and poetic phrasing

Eric Lu: Schubert Impromptus album review – mature and mesmerising

In this recording of the eight Impromptus, some of Schubert’s most profound music, Lu cements his place as a serious talent

Schubert 4 Hands album review – affectionately searching accounts from two pianists in emotional synergy

Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou find lyrical intimacy and finely tuned emotional balance in Schubert’s late masterpieces for four hands

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D959; Moments Musicaux album review – grandeur and grace from Steven Osborne

His grasp of Schubert’s scale and ebullience means this is among the finest recordings of one of the composer’s final sonatas

Schubert, Ter Schiphorst, Andre album review – something old, something new

Alongside a rather brittle Death and the Maiden, contemporary composers Iris ter Schiphorst adds a recorder to a string quartet while Marc Andre’s miniatures study textures

Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 album review – beautifully shaped works and a bravura performance

The French pianist revels in the virtuoso demands of Brahms’s early sonata

Winterreise review – agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life

Deborah Warner’s staged version of Winterreise is a powerful and deeply moving piece of theatre

Schubert: String Quartets in G, D887 and B Flat, D112 album review – Takács take their time, this time

The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners

Paul Lewis review – Schubert’s last works given a masterful treatment

Pianist is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of sonatas completed months before composer’s death

Winterreise review – Juliane Banse invigorates Schubert’s song cycle with vividly intelligent dance

The singer never lost her beauty of tone wherever the compelling choreography took her, enhancing the impact of the performance in an utterly unexpected way

Prégardien/Litwin review – immersed in every word, the great lieder singer is in command

The first of three programmes from Prégardien, with songs by Ives, Schubert, Schumann and Mahler linked with settings from Hanns Eisler, consummately sung and played

Borletti-Buitoni Trust at 20 review – first footholds celebrated by benificaries of musical trust

Musicians including Mitsuko Uchida, James Newby and the Apollon Musagète Quartet were part of a weekend of concerts marking 20 years of the trust that supports those at the beginning of their careers

Emanuel Ax review – quicksilver agility and a model of good musical sense

A recital devoted to Schubert and Liszt perfectly showcased this outstanding pianist’s unfussy approach

Schubert: The Piano Trios, etc review – wonderful swan song from Lars Vogt

The late pianist is outstanding in these last recordings, accompanied by his longtime collaborators, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his cellist sister Tanja

A Winter’s Journey review – vivid colours, of voice and visuals, enrich Schubert’s song cycle

Barbican, LondonAnimating Winterreise with works by Australian painter Fred Williams created striking moments, but Allan Clayton’s voice brought power and drama enough of its own