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26.8.17

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Schubert At His Secret Best With Four Hands


…Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this opinion (although I admittedly express it more for effect thank for thinking it absolutely incontestable); the former German critic and ‘piano-pope’ Joachim Kaiser, too, deemed it “not just one of the most important compositions Schubert ever created, but even one of the greatest works in music history.”…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Schubert At His Secret Best With Four Hands



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Franz Schubert,
Piano Sonata D959, Fantasy in F minor D940 , Allegro in A minor D947 , Rondo in A major D951,
Philippe Cassard & Cédric Pescia (piano),
La Dolce Volta

































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