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After simultaneously charting four separate albums on the Billboard Classical Charts last year, pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman turns to the music of Schubert. Described as the last "Classical" and first "Romantic" composer, it is really impossible to pin a meaningful label on Schubert. He was, and still is, a very special case: a lonely figure in musical history, and a dreamer who brought a previously unknown degree of intimacy, despair, hope, and disappointment into music. Schubert was a sincere, shy, and vulnerable man (though did not lack confidence in himself as an artist), and his personality is clearly reflected in his music.

Simon Wallfisch writes of this new release: "Supressed music (or 'Entartete Musik' or 'Verfemte Musik'), music and musicians smeared by the Nazis' dark, ideologically-motivated hatred, has developed into an artificial genre of it's own, throwing together composers of completely different musical backgrounds and, it must be said, varying degrees of quality, into the same bucket. This must change. We risk missing the true qualities, nuances and pedigree of individual composers' voices, as well as the cultural preoccupations that united them (as in the case of this album, the common fascination in the early twentieth century with translations of Chinese and Persian poetry). The deliberate inclusion of Richard Strauss (whose political allegiances are questionable) is because I wish the listener to hear beyond the names, beyond the painful historical facts and savor the incredible sound world created by these musical cousins. It is my wish that, by presenting all of these neglected composers as equals, we can begin to restore them to their rightful place, where they belonged all along, in our collective musical Consciousness."

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The Steinberg Duo's 2013 CD release of Sawyers & Elgar Violin Sonatas has enthralled the critics; Bruce Reader described their playing as having "the listener teetering on the edge of melancholy and joy," while John France of Musicweb-International described the disc as "a startling discovery... an exemplary performance." Now, the duo turns to works by Franck, Dvor�k, and Grieg in a disc that will surely receive no less praise! The Steinberg Duo has performed in Canada, Spain, Germany, and throughout the UK. The year 2013 marked their first commercial recording for the Nimbus Alliance label, their first live broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and their first concerto appearance with the Orchestra of the Swan. Formed in 2007, the duo is passionate about presenting the wonderful violin & piano repertoire as an equal partnership.

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