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Andreas Staier, Alexander Melnikov - Schubert: Fantasie In F Minor And Other Piano Duets (2017)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: 8 Mar 2023 10:29:32

"I have composed a big sonata and variations for four hands, and the latter have met with a specially good reception here, but I do not entirely trust Hungarian taste, and I shall leave it to you and to the Viennese to decide their true merit" So wrote Franz Schubert in 1824, evoking the popular 19th-century genre for 4-hands piano that publishers were always pestering him to write for. In his brief life Schubert devoted 32 compositions to this form and the least of these pieces, be it a ländler, polonaise or march, radiates with all of his finesse and sensitivity. Three are incontestable masterpieces, in the same rank as his sonatas or quartets: the Variations D813, the Fantasie D 940 and the Rondo D 951. All three date from the composer's final years, a period that gave birth to his most accomplished works.
In concert, Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov have played Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier', with Staier at the harpsichord, alongside Shostakovich's '24 Preludes and Fugues', with Melnikov at the piano. Sharing a keyboard evidently suits them just as well; their unique musical complicity bringing together four hands and two immense talents.
"Two very different but like-minded musicians, Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov, sat down together and offered a careful selection of these pieces…two musicians indulging in a Schubert feast of often outstanding quality…They breathed together, evolved together, gave each other wings. It is such a pleasure watching music being made through teamwork, even in - particularly in - the smallest of teams…Staier might as well have sung simultaneously, or instead of playing, such was his understanding and interpretation of those lines, behind which there is always a wordless Lied. The haunting opening theme in the Fantasy in F minor, D.940, with its pounding appoggiatura that stubbornly delays the perfect fourth interval that follows, defied any description." (Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Musica, Madrid on 23 September 2014, Laura Furones, Bachtrack)

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Track List:

Franz Schubert

[1]-[4] Fantasie in F minor, Op.103, D.940
[5] 4 Ländler, D 814
[6] Marche Caractéristique in C major, D.886 No.1 - I. Allegro Vivace
[7]-[15] Variations on an original theme in A flat major, Op.35, D.813
[16] Grande Marche in B minor, Op.40 No.3, D.819
[17] Polonaise in D minor, Op.61 No.1, D.824
[18] Rondo in A major, Op.107, D.951

Performers:
Andreas Staier, Alexander Melnikov
fortepiano Graf by Christopher Clarke

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