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Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands / Badura-Skoda, Demus

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Composer
SCHUBERT, FRANZ
Artist
Badura-Skoda, Demus
Format
CD
Label
Gramola Records
Released
Nov 02, 2018
Catalog #
GRAM99175
UPC
9003643991750

About

On this release, recorded in 1978 and 2007, Paul Badura-Skoda and Jorg Demus present works by Schubert for piano four hands. The artists comment: “There are no such things as the two of us - two studious, open-minded young Viennese musicians who want to serve their darling Schubert with all their Four Hands in what is probably the most beautiful chamber music hall in the world, which Brahms loved so much that it later was named Brahms Hall, in the venerable house of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde - among the founding members were Beethoven and Schubert - on the most Viennese of all pianos, the Bösendorfer with its singing, downright Schubertian treble. Both of us had just escaped physically and spiritually sound from the turmoil of war; one thought of creating a new world of the beautiful and the good, both of us at least in music. We had a unique generation of great masters to look up to: Wilhelm Backhaus, probably the greatest of all Bösendorf players, Walter Gieseking, Edwin Fischer - we were even granted to study together in Lucerne in 1948; Paul remained connected to him throughout his life. Above all, the wonderful violin sound of the Vienna Philharmonic delighted us, and in Furtwängler the brilliant overall conception: Have you heard "His" Unfinished, or the Great C major symphony? Schubert's songs delighted us with the wonderful voices of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, and soon also by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Joseph Krips had just presented the opera with a Mozart style that was fully natural. The whole world seemed to breathe a sigh of relief (it was before the darn Iron Curtain) and Vienna was once again the capital of music. And so we played the piano with our Four Hands, above all Mozart and Schubert, as faithfully as possible to the scores of Schubert, but we were happy to incorporate temperament, feeling and inspiration into our ten fingers.”

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Rondo in D Major, D. 608 07:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    Rondo in D Major, D. 608
    Duration
    07:48
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  3. 2 8 Variations on an Original Theme in A-Flat Major, Op. 35, D. 813 16:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    8 Variations on an Original Theme in A-Flat Major, Op. 35, D. 813
    Duration
    16:43
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  4. 3 I. Andante 10:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    10:06
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  5. 4 II. Marsch: Andante con moto 03:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Marsch: Andante con moto
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  6. 5 III. Allegretto 13:07
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Allegretto
    Duration
    13:07
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  7. 6 Rondo in A Major, Op. 107, D. 951, "Grand Rondeau" 12:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    Rondo in A Major, Op. 107, D. 951, "Grand Rondeau"
    Duration
    12:19
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  8. Disc 2
  9. 1 Allegro molto moderato - 04:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    Allegro molto moderato -
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  10. 2 Largo - 02:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    Largo -
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  11. 3 Allegro vivace - 04:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    Allegro vivace -
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  12. 4 Tempo I 05:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    Tempo I
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  13. 5 Schubert - 16 Ländler, Anh. Ia/6: No. 1. — - No. 2. — - No. 3. — 02:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    Schubert - 16 Ländler, Anh. Ia/6: No. 1. — - No. 2. — - No. 3. —
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  14. 6 Divertissement sur des motifs originaux français: No. 2. Andantino varié, Op. 84, No. 1, D. 823 08:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    Divertissement sur des motifs originaux français: No. 2. Andantino varié, Op. 84, No. 1, D. 823
    Duration
    08:09
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  15. 7 No. 1 in C Major: Allegro vivace 05:03
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1 in C Major: Allegro vivace
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  16. 8 No. 2 in C Major: Allegro vivace 06:08
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2 in C Major: Allegro vivace
    Duration
    06:08
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus
  17. 9 3 Marches militaires, Op. 51, D. 733: No. 1 in D Major 03:19
    Track
    9
    Title
    3 Marches militaires, Op. 51, D. 733: No. 1 in D Major
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Paul Badura-Skoda, Jörg Demus