Mozart: Sonata For Two Pianos and Schubert: Fantasie For Piano Four Hands

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They breathe together, agree on relative dynamics and tonal colour and understand the balance of the textures...A consistently musical interpretation. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)

Release Date: 12th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: CC72848
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 43 minutes

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Mozart: Sonata for 2 pianos in D major, K448

Work length21:58

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I. Allegro con spirito

Track length7:59

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II. Andante

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III. Allegro molto

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Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940

Work length17:05

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV614 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist'

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV599 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

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Scholtes & Janssens: 'We were just 18 and 19 years old when we first ventured to play Mozart's Sonata for two pianos. We'd only been playing together for a year at the time. Schubert's Fantasy in F followed shortly afterwards. Now, 17 years on, we're finally brave enough to record these two iconic works. Over recent years, these two works have taken on the role of critical teachers, sources of inspiration and motivation for us to keep on developing, as a duo certainly, but also and mainly as individual musicians. We've been challenged by legendary recordings made by the likes of Radu Lupu & Murray Perahia, Josef & Rosina Lhevinne, and father and son Neuhaus to discover our own sound, both in this music and elsewhere.

From the beginning seventeen years ago, we have been forced to face up to the fact that a good duo doesn't just happen when you put two good pianists together, and certainly not in Mozart or Schubert. Every note that's slightly misplaced, every chord that's not properly balanced can tarnish the performance. And every phrase when you don't breathe together. We gradually became more and more convinced that piano duo players have to be soloists, chamber musicians and an orchestra at the same time. As a duo, our aim is to have the freedom and virtuosity of a soloist, the ear and connectivity of a chamber musician and the tonal palette and nuanced subtlety of a symphony orchestra.'

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April 2021

They breathe together, agree on relative dynamics and tonal colour and understand the balance of the textures...A consistently musical interpretation.

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