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Schubert - Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940
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Chamber » Duos » Piano Duos
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The Lewis-Osborne duo establishes a slyly (or should that be shyly?) wistful mood in the Andante varie in B minor, revels in the bravura writing of the Variations in A flat...and transforms... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th November 2010
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Wonderful performances: delicacy in the Mozart as well as a feel for the Sonata's near-orchestral scale. A magisterial reading of Schubert's Fantasie. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Instrumental
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Special offer. Schubert & Desyatnikov: Works for Piano Duet
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), Samson Tsoy (piano)
In this recording the Schubert works emerge as absolutely magical. The Divertissement elicits a sumptuous softness, while the Fantasie creates the impression of vast and intensely dramatic landscapes. —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Piano
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On paper it seems an unlikely pairing. On disc, however, it is something of a triumph, a recording that is far more than a mere souvenir d'occasion of a memorable night in Carnegie Hall. Intriguingly,... —
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Building a Library, April 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Schubert - Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Volume 2
RecommendedJulia Fischer (violin/piano) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
They give a magnificent account of this inspired work [the F major Fantasy]...It's a challenging piece...yet Fischer and Helmchen present as fine as any account on disc...They are a marvellous... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Chamber Finalist
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major
RecommendedEmil Gilels (piano), with Elena Gilels (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
This is the most beautiful of Mozart playing, his last piano concerto given here by Emil Gilels with total clarity. This is a classic performance, memorably accompanied by the VPO and Böhm.... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor & other piano duets
RecommendedAndreas Staier, Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano Graf by Christopher Clarke)
Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov play all these pieces with admirable poetry and intimacy…this new recording has the advantage of being played on the type of instrument Schubert would have... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building a Library, January 2005, First Choice
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The pianism is exemplary. David Fray has probably never hit an ugly note, nor failed to produce textures of luminous clarity and seductive depth and colour...Beautiful, certainly, in its way;... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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