Artur Schnabel Plays Schubert-Volume I

Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Artur Schnabel (Performer), Karl Ulrich Schnabel (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Artur Schnabel, Karl Ulrich Schnabel
• Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
• Audio CD (April 22, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Pearl
• ASIN: B000000WS1
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #719,526 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: Allegro

2. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: Andantino

3. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: Scherzo & Trio, Allegro vivace... Un poco piu lento

4. Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959: Rondo, Allegretto

5. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: Molto moderato

6. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: Andante sostenuto

7. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: Scherzo & Trio, Allegro vivace con delicatezza

8. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960: Allegro ma non troppo

9. Allegretto for piano in C minor, D. 915

Disc: 2

1. Divertissement à la hongroise for piano, 4 hands in G minor, D. 818 (Op. 54): Andante

2. Divertissement à la hongroise for piano, 4 hands in G minor, D. 818 (Op. 54): Marcia, Andante con moto

3. Divertissement à la hongroise for piano, 4 hands in G minor, D. 818 (Op. 54): Allegretto

4. Divertissement for piano, 4 hands, in E minor ('à la française'), D. 823 (Op. 84/1 & 2, Op. 63/1): Andantino varié in B minor, D.823

5. Marches (6) for piano, 4 hands ('Grandes Marches'), D. 819 (Op. 40): March in G minor, D. 819 No.2

6. Marches (6) for piano, 4 hands ('Grandes Marches'), D. 819 (Op. 40): March in B minor, D. 819 No.3

7. Rondo for piano, 4 hands in A major ('Grand Rondo'), D. 951 (Op. 107)

8. Allegro for piano, 4 hands in A minor ('Lebensstürme'), D. 947 (Op. posth. 144)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Schubert Overheard, November 21, 2002

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William M. Burgan (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Artur Schnabel Plays Schubert-Volume I (Audio CD)

I first owned Schnabel's recording of the D959 on a 78 set, and in those far-off years heard him play another in a recital in Baltimore. The Schnabel vogue -- in terms of attendance at recitals -- had definitely waned. But those who were there were deeply happy people. I have never seen a soloist who gave so much the impression of playing for himself and a few other people; it was as though you were in his home. No one could have been less the Great Virtuoso, more the quiet sharer. And there's an intimacy in his playing of Schubert that no one else quite matches, for me at least. Someone has said that poetry -- unlike rhetorical prose -- is "overheard." So with Schnabel's playing, and especially his Schubert. We were privileged to overhear it. And still are.