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SCHUBERT, F.: Sonata for Piano 4 Hands, D. 812, "Grand Duo" / Rondo, D. 951, "Grand Rondeau" (Schonere Welten) (Duo d'Accord, Hartling)

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SCHUBERT, F.: Sonata for Piano 4 Hands, D. 812, "Grand Duo" / Rondo, D. 951, "Grand Rondeau" (Schonere Welten) (Duo d'Accord, Hartling)

Composer(s):Schubert, FranzSchubert, Franz
Artist(s) Duo d'Accord, Ensemble • Hartling, Peter, narrator
Period(s) Romantic
Genre Classical Music
Category Instrumental • Spoken Commentary
Catalogue SM138
Label Solo Musica
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   




Review By Charles Timbrell ,Fanfare,March 2011

The “Grand Duo” was composed in the summer of 1824, when Schubert was appointed music instructor to the two daughters of Count Esterházy at Castle Zselíz in Hungary. Around this time, Schubert was being treated for syphilis and struggling as a freelance composer. He wrote his brother that he harbored “the fatal knowledge of our miserable reality, which I attempt to beautify as much as possible through my powers of imagination. …I am now more able to find inner happiness and peace than in the past. You will see the proof of this in a great sonata.” The work is thought to have been influenced by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which had been premiered in Vienna a few months earlier. Its four movements, symphonic in scope and totaling

The lovely Rondo was Schubert’s last piece for piano duet, completed in June 1828 and published shortly after his death. It is serene throughout, with gently contrasting themes and none of the grave melancholy that characterized some of his other late works. Huang and Euler play it lovingly and I would place it alongside the live performance by Argerich and Freire. I recommend this disc most highly, and I look forward to acquainting myself with this team’s other recordings, including music by Schumann, Messiaen, and Beethoven.

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Review By James Harrington,American Record Guide,March 2011

Duo d’Accord has impressed us in two previous reviews, both at one and two pianos. Their excellent Schumann (Oehms 577) and Messiaen & Beethoven (Oehms 704) made me quite pleased to see their first Schubert recording. They begin with the reading of a poem Schubert wrote in 1823, called ‘My Prayer’. A full description of its meaning to them is included in their very fine program notes. The Rondo in A has been on a couple of releases in the past year and is the first duet Huang and Euler ever played together. It is Schubert’s last piece for piano duet, and was not published until a month after he died. Unlike most of his works from the last year of his life, which display much melancholy, the Rondo is quite beautiful, lyrical and tranquil. Duo

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