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Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major, K. 448; Schubert: Fantasia for Piano, 4 Hands in F Minor, D 940 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 10241
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 93015
UPC: 827969301524
EAN: 0827969301524
ASIN: B0000CF330
Release Date: September 30, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | I. Allegro con spirito | | • | II. Andante | | • | III. Allegro molto | | • | I. Allegro ritenuto | | • | II. Andante | | • | III. Allegro ritenuto | | • | Andante | | • | Variation I. | | • | Variation II. | | • | Variation III. | | • | Variation IV. | | • | Variation V. |
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| Customer Reviews:
As Good as It's Cracked Up To Be! December 12, 2008
Gerry Katz (Boston, MA)
I bought this recording in anticipation of the recent James Levine-Daniel Barenboim performance of the Schubert Fantasy as part of a Boston Symphony concert (along with Eliot Carter's new piece and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring).
It is everything it's cracked up to be - lucid, dramatic, full of feeling, and above all, technically perfect in ensemble. The Mozart pieces are just as good.
As much as I enjoyed Levine and Barenboim, this recording is infinitely better.
Transcendent Music, Perfectly Played August 30, 2008
Joseph Isenbergh (Chicago, Illinois USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Schubert's F minor Fantasy is the greatest work for piano 4-hands. To my ears, indeed, it comes close to the summit of all music.
The F minor Fantasy has always drawn great artists to it and has been much and well recorded, by such duo pianists as Eschenbach-Frantz, Richter-Britten, Aebersold-Neiweem, Levin-Bilson, Schnabel (Helen)-Schnabel (Karl), the Paratore brothers, the Pekinel sisters, and Brendel-Cochet, to name only a few. I own more than 20 recordings of the piece. Astonishingly, all are rewarding; many are sublime.
Even within this lofty group, the Lupu and Perahia recording stands out. Their playing combines clarity and rhythmic propulsion with a kind of dreamy relaxation. This may sound impossible but they accomplish it by imparting supple inflection and finely shaded dynamics to the musical lines, while maintaining perfect metrical exactitude. The sound quality is impeccable. I doubt the F minor Fantasy can be played better or recorded with greater fidelity.
The clincher here is that Amazon.com sells the entire F minor Fantasy (almost 20 minutes of music) as a single file for 99 cents. So buy it. Pound for pound, it will be the best 99 cents you ever spent.
The rest of the disk is superb as well, including an outstanding recording of Mozart's D major sonata for two pianos.
Classic(al) May 8, 2007
SPDMNMiata (Houston, Texas)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Fabulous music performed by fabulous musicians. Mozart is one of my favorite composers. His music is genius. And Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu are two of the greatest pianists of our time.
The Full Keyboard - More Mozart and Schubert! July 14, 2006
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The credentials of both of the two soloists here - Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu - are impeccable as individual interpreters of the works of both Mozart and Schubert and so it should come as no surprise that as they sit at the same keyboard the result is nothing less than satisfying.
For this listener the highlight of this recording is the splendid composition by Schubert - the 'Fantasia for piano, 4 hands in F minor', D. 94. The work contains some of his most haunting melodies in his oeuvre and Perahia and Lupu find that degree of harmony that makes the piece truly sing.
The Mozart works (Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major, K 375), the Fantasia for mechanical organ in F minor, K. 608 and Variations on an original theme for piano, 4 hands in G major, K. 501) are of interest not only because they are rarely heard, but also because of the intelligent music making Perahia and Lupu bring to their interpretations. Without a score in hand it is difficult to know which exposed parts are being played by which soloist and that is as it should be. The two pianists mirror each other and respect the performances in a way that is a welcome unified sound.
Works for extended piano keyboard, whether that be on the same keyboard or on two pianos, are too infrequently performed for obvious reasons. But here we have two of our finest pianists on a CD that is available at the press of a button. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, July 06
Highly rated July 21, 2005
Alan Lekan (Boulder, CO)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
A superb collaboration of two great pianists recently remastered for better sound quality. Masterful music but perhaps a divergent coupling. This performance was given high marks by major reviewers (Gramophone). See original CD issue for more reviews on Amazon.
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