Paul Badura-Skoda - Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands (Live) '2018

Tracks list

	Tracklist

CD1
01. Rondo in D Major, D. 608 (Live)
02. 8 Variations on an Original Theme in A-Flat Major, Op. 35, D. 813 (Live)
03. Divertissement à la hongroise, Op. 54, D. 818: I. Andante (Live)
04. Divertissement à la hongroise, Op. 54, D. 818: II. Marcia. Andante con
moto (Live)
05. Divertissement à la hongroise, Op. 54, D. 818: III. Allegretto (Live)
06. Rondo in A Major, Op. 107, D. 951 (Live)

CD2
01. Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 103, D. 940: I. Allegro molto moderato (Live)
02. Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 103, D. 940: II. Largo (Live)
03. Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 103, D. 940: III. Allegro vivace (Live)
04. Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 103, D. 940: IV. Tempo I (Live)
05. 20 Ländler von Franz Schubert, Anh. 1a/6: No. 1, — - No. 2,
— - No. 3, — (Live)
06. Divertissement sur des motifs originaux français, Op. 84, D. 823: No. 2,
Andantino varié (Live)
07. 2 Marches caractéristiques in C Major, Op. 121, D. 968b: No. 1, Allegro
vivace (Live)
08. 2 Marches caractéristiques in C Major, Op. 121, D. 968b: No. 2, Allegro
vivace (Live)
09. 3 Marches militaires, Op. 51, D. 733: No. 1 in D Major (Live)



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. 

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