Schubert: Lebensstürme. Music for Piano Four-Hands

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The transparency and varied tonal colours of the Pleyel are particularly effective in the D951 Rondo, which they imbue with plenty of charm,
with a notably warm account of the main theme...In... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

Release Date: 10th Apr 2020
Catalogue No: CKD593
Label: Linn
Length: 77 minutes

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Schubert: Rondo for piano duet in D major, D608

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Schubert: Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 617 in B Flat Major

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I. Allegro moderato

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II. Andante con moto

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III. Allegretto

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Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940

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Schubert: Rondo for piano duet in A major, D951

Work length12:49

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Schubert: Allegro in A minor 'Lebensstürme', D947

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Interview, Duo Pleyel on Schubert

8th June 2020

David talks to husband-and-wife piano duo Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya about their latest album Lebensstürme, out now on Linn.

• Duo Pleyel (Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya) makes its recording debut with a programme of works for piano four-hands by Schubert, whose contribution to this genre exceeds that of any other composer.

• Aside from being hugely enjoyable this repertoire features some of Schubert’s finest piano writing. • Schubert’s great F minor Fantasie, although justly famous, represents only a small proportion of his music for piano four-hands.

• It is an extraordinary body of work which demonstrates the gathering importance of this compositional medium.

• Duo Pleyel brings this famous Fantasie into context with other lesserknown works such as the wonderfully melodic early Sonata in B flat major, written when Schubert was 21, and the two contrasting Rondos: the Rondo in D major and the Rondo in A major (Schubert’s final work for piano four-hands).

• Perhaps the star composition is the passionate Allegro in A minor, written a month after the Fantasie, and sometimes known by its posthumous title “Lebensstürme”; it gives us a clear picture of Schubert’s inner life: of a man who wrote ‘Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.’

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July 2020

The transparency and varied tonal colours of the Pleyel are particularly effective in the D951 Rondo, which they imbue with plenty of charm,
with a notably warm account of the main theme...In the A minor Allegro, D947, Duo Pleyel find the drama that has been lacking elsewhere, the contrast with the hushed writing here very telling. That drive is maintained right up to the close, the final two chords ending the disc in a mood of heroic defiance.

29th March 2020

I find the 1848 Pleyel’s bass register uncomfortably assertive in the Fantasy, but it is otherwise a pleasure to hear in the hands of these gifted musicians.

21st March 2020

Duo Pleyel, as the name indicates, use a French Pleyel piano from 1848: bright-toned, almost acidic at the top but warm, with a clean, nimble action. The sense of four hands entwining across the keyboard is vivid, immediate. The instrument’s sound conjures an intimate Biedermeier drawing room of the sort Schubert might have known.

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