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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Tiziana Moneta & Gabriele Rota play Brahms & Schubert
Tiziana Moneta & Gabriele Rota (piano duo) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu play Mozart & Schubert
Sony Classical ORIGINALS offer listeners outstanding enjoyment, authentically recapturing the fascination of legendary recordings from the age of long-playing records and preserving worthwhile releases from two labels with particularly long and distinguished traditions: RCA Red Seal and Columbia Masterworks. These superb recordings by great artists have enjoyed international acclaim ever since they were first released. Showered with critical plaudits, they are part of the 20th century’s cultural legacy. All have been remastered and carefully restored using the latest studio technology in order to reproduce the original interpretations as faithfully as possible. The CD covers are taken over from the original LPs. The original introductions and LP labels are also reproduced in full, making Sony Classical ORIGINALS unique documents in the history of recorded sound. Featuring original LP cover artwork in full size and reproduction of original labels in mini LP design. Contains original liner notes in 3 languages (English, French and German) Jewel case packaging with fully coloured booklets. The Sony Classical Originals bring together for the first time at the Mid Price the greatest recordings from across all of the labels which are part of the Sony Classical umbrella, and are a perfect starting point for any classical collector. “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.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schubert: Piano Duets
Schubert is unusual and indeed unique among composers in that some of his greatest works are written for piano duet. He wrote as much music for duet as for solo piano, and reaches emotional depths which take this repertoire far away from its domestic origins. The most celebrated of these pieces, the Fantasie in F minor, with its austere yet heartbreaking opening melody and dramatic double fugue, is one of the great piano achievements of the early 19th century. The rest of the works on this disc are much less well-known but equally fascinating. Who better to commit these works to disc than two of the brighest stars in the British piano scene, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne? As well as their individual achievements, they also have a long-standing friendship and performing relationship which you will hear reflected in their magisterial performances on this marvellous disc. “Osborne and Lewis predictably reserve their finest, most perceptive playing for the Fantasie, giving its infinitely regretful main theme a different shading on each of its appearances and colouring the work's harmonic shifts and modulations impeccably. None of their performances could be described as routine, though, even when the music is less than top drawer” The Guardian, 4th November 2010 **** “The quality that shines through in these performances is the way in which Schubert so intuitively judged the special medium of the piano duet...Osborne and Lewis have full measure of its inventive scope on a disc of outstanding, enlivening musicianship.” The Telegraph, 29th October 2010 ***** “This brilliantly planned programme is executed with poetry, drama and verve by two complementary pianists who clearly think as one in this sublime chamber music.” Sunday Times, 7th November 2010 **** “Though Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne may not immediately appear stylistically empathetic artists, let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. In this repertoire they are as one, touch and tone indistinguishable from one another, playing with a delicious fluency and obvious affection...this is a Schubert disc to return to and live with.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 “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 the severity of the Fugue in E minor into something ennobling. Such playing suggests that they have found the key to conveying Schubert's magical world of shadows and sunlight.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 **** “Two of Britain's finest younger pianists work wonders with the marvels of Schubert's inner landscape...Here are two friends loving every moment of their joint effort. Schubert might have cheered.” Classic FM Magazine, February 2011 ***** “From the opening thunderclap of 'Lebensstürme' it is clear that great things are in store...No-one with a taste for superlative, passionately committed music-making, ensemble of the highest calibre or some of Schubert's most beautiful music can afford to miss this one.” International Record Review, December 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schubert - Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Volume 2
Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen now need no introduction. Their first volume of the works of Schubert was an overnight success. The unique feature on this CD is Julia’s performance as a pianist in Fantaisie in F minor D 940 Op.103, a four hand piece. She has performed in live concerts as a pianist but this is her recording debut. “Characteristic Schubert, played with penetrating subtlety by the two young Germans Fischer and Helmchen...The CD ends with the D940 Fantasia for piano duet, with Fischer partnering in a powerful performance: one moment fiery, the next caressing. And all such heavenly music.” The Times, 22nd May 2010 **** “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 team, evidently giving each other ideas as they go along.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2010 ***** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Tales from Vienna
Waltraud Wulz, Antoinette Van Zabner (piano duo) Waltraud Wulz and Antoinette Van Zabner perform piano duets by Mozart, Schubert, Eröd, Ravel and Johann Strauss II. 'Both pianists combine a beautiful sound, splendid technique and sure-handed perception with a distinct stylistic understanding as well as the ability to work and to hear their way into complicated structures' (Krzystof Meyer, composer and writer). | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schubert - Piano Works for Four Hands
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| |  | Schubert - Music for Piano Duet 2
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| |  | Piano Duets
“So reliable are Harmonia Mundi's talent spotters that reviewing their latest signings is becoming almost boring. I say "almost" because listening to Schubert is no chore, especially when played with the pristine delicacy of piano duo Alexandre Tharaud and Zhu Xiao-Mei......Beautifully unegocentric playing.” The Independent on Sunday | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major
“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. Suffice it to say that Gilels sees everything and exaggerates nothing, that the performance has an Olympian authority and serenity, and that the Larghetto is one of the glories of the gramophone. He's joined by his daughter Elena in the Double Piano Concerto in E flat, and their physical relationship is mirrored in the quality, and the mutual understanding of the playing: both works receive marvellous interpretations.
We think Emil plays first, Elena second, but could be quite wrong. The VPO under Karl Böhm is at its best; and so is the quality of recording, with a good stereo separation of the two solo parts, highly desirable in this work.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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