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New Schubert Recording from Top Piano Duo
Recording News from Divine Art:
New Schubert recording from top piano duo
Two Schubert World Premieres! That’s what is promised from a new recording by leading duo Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow, who are making their 18th album for the Anglo-American label Divine Art. Back in 2004 and 2006 the duo issued two CDs of Schubert’s music, arranged by his friends and contemporaries for piano duet or two pianos: to distinguish these works from Schubert’s own piano duos, the series was given the title ‘Unauthorised Piano Duos’. The first two volumes garnered high praise from critics internationally, with Gramophone calling volume 1 ‘invaluable’ and Nineteenth Century Music Review ‘a marvelous guilty pleasure’. Volume 2, works arranged by Schubert’s close friend and duet partner Josef von Gahy, was equally well received. Now the pianists have at last completed their project with the third album which presents exceptionally important première recordings of two major works: the String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, often known as ‘Death and the Maiden’, and arguably Schubert’s best known work of all – the so-called ‘Unfinished’ Symphony no. 8 in B minor.
Both works are world première recordings. The Quartet, with its unbearably moving second movement based on Schubert’s song, was lovingly transformed into a virtuosic four-hand extravaganza by Robert Franz, the song composer who on becoming deaf was lavishly subsidised by Liszt and Joachim.
A major discovery is the manuscript of the duet arrangement of the only two completed movements of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony made by his friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner during his possession of Schubert’s manuscript. Anthony Goldstone has completed and arranged Schubert’s sketch of the Scherzo and adapted the nineteenth-century composer Friedrich Hermann’s arrangement of the B minor Entr’acte from “Rosamunde” to make an appropriate symphonic finale. So, the Symphony is no longer unfinished and the completion even in piano duet transcription may well represent what Schubert intended for this masterpiece.
‘Schubert: Unauthorised Piano Duos, volume 3’ by Goldstone and Clemmow will be released on CD and digital download by Divine Art Records in July 2015.
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Two Schubert World Premieres! That’s what is promised from a new recording by leading duo Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow, who are making their 18th album for the Anglo-American label Divine Art. Back in 2004 and 2006 the duo issued two CDs of Schubert’s music, arranged by his friends and contemporaries for piano duet or two pianos: to distinguish these works from Schubert’s own piano duos, the series was given the title ‘Unauthorised Piano Duos’. The first two volumes garnered high praise from critics internationally, with Gramophone calling volume 1 ‘invaluable’ and Nineteenth Century Music Review ‘a marvelous guilty pleasure’. Volume 2, works arranged by Schubert’s close friend and duet partner Josef von Gahy, was equally well received. Now the pianists have at last completed their project with the third album which presents exceptionally important première recordings of two major works: the String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, often known as ‘Death and the Maiden’, and arguably Schubert’s best known work of all – the so-called ‘Unfinished’ Symphony no. 8 in B minor.
Both works are world première recordings. The Quartet, with its unbearably moving second movement based on Schubert’s song, was lovingly transformed into a virtuosic four-hand extravaganza by Robert Franz, the song composer who on becoming deaf was lavishly subsidised by Liszt and Joachim.
A major discovery is the manuscript of the duet arrangement of the only two completed movements of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony made by his friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner during his possession of Schubert’s manuscript. Anthony Goldstone has completed and arranged Schubert’s sketch of the Scherzo and adapted the nineteenth-century composer Friedrich Hermann’s arrangement of the B minor Entr’acte from “Rosamunde” to make an appropriate symphonic finale. So, the Symphony is no longer unfinished and the completion even in piano duet transcription may well represent what Schubert intended for this masterpiece.
‘Schubert: Unauthorised Piano Duos, volume 3’ by Goldstone and Clemmow will be released on CD and digital download by Divine Art Records in July 2015.
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