Schubert - Fantasie in F Minor & other piano duets
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMM902227
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 31st March 2017
Contents
Works
Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, op.103 D940Grandes Marches (6), op.40 D819
Marches caracteristiques (2), D886
Variations in A flat major on an original theme, D813
Artists
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
Works
Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, op.103 D940Grandes Marches (6), op.40 D819
Marches caracteristiques (2), D886
Variations in A flat major on an original theme, D813
Artists
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
About
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." – Laura Furones, Bachtrack
Reviews
They open with the magnum opus of duet repertoire, the F Minor Fantasie, D940, but it’s not the moody, broody thing it tends to be on modern Steinways. The sound is more intimate, more spruce; high notes have a pearliness that make the melodies really ping, and whichever pianist is playing the upper part (I’m guessing Staier – something about those flourishes) adds dainty ornaments that make the whole thing feel partly improvised. Kate Molleson
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