Schubert: Piano Duets
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Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571176659
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571176659
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Description
Schubert is unusual and indeed unique among composers in that some of his greatest works are written for piano duet. He wrote as much music for duet as for solo piano, and reaches emotional depths which take this repertoire far away from its domestic origins. The most celebrated of these pieces, the Fantasie in F minor, with its austere yet heartbreaking opening melody and dramatic double fugue, is one of the great piano achievements of the early 19th century. The rest of the works on this disc are much less well known but equally fascinating.
Who better to commit these works to disc than two of the brightest stars in the British piano scene, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne? As well as their individual achievements, they also have a long-standing friendship and performing relationship which you will hear reflected in their magisterial performances on this marvellous disc.
Tracklisting
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
Takacs Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Barokk Boreal
TriOlogie String Trio
Emanuel Blumin-Sint
Matthias Lingenfelder, Peter Orth
Anette Maiburg, Emmanuel Ceysson, Ramon Ortega Quero, Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Douglas Bostock
Le Pavillon de Musique, Ann Cnop
Desguin Kwartet
Hexagon Ensemble & Ekaterina Levental