Schubert: Divertissement à la Hongroise, Fantasie in F Minor - Desyatnikov: Trompe-l'œil Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818, Op. 54:
• 1 Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818, Op. 54: I. Andante 12:04
• 2 Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818, Op. 54: II. Marcia. Andante con moto 03:12
• 3 Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818, Op. 54: III. Allegretto 12:51
• Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955): Trompe-l'œil:
• 4 Desyatnikov: Trompe-l'œil 20:35
• Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor, D. 940, Op. 103:
• 5 Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor, D. 940, Op. 103: I. Allegro molto moderato 05:02
• 6 Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor, D. 940, Op. 103: II. Largo 02:53
• 7 Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor, D. 940, Op. 103: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 05:02
• 8 Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor, D. 940, Op. 103: IV. Finale. Allegro molto moderato 06:19
• Total Runtime 01:07:58

Info for Schubert: Divertissement à la Hongroise, Fantasie in F Minor - Desyatnikov: Trompe-l'œil

Kolesnikov’s latest album, with his longtime partner Samson Tsoy, features two major pieces by Schubert (Divertissement à la hongroise, Fantasy in F Minor) and a “reflection piece” on Schubert’s Fantasy that the duo commissioned from Leonid Desyatnikov. (It debuted last year at the Edinburgh Festival.) The pianists have been performing as a duo since 2009, but this may be the first time music-lovers will hear Tsoy, Kolesnikov’s long term partner on and off stage, on disc. The two musicians met as teenagers at Moscow Conservatory in 2007; they immediately became close partners performing piano duos.

Our recording of the Fantasy is very different from the many interpretations of the piece that we have given – or at least tried to give – on the concert stage. Strangely, in the studio it becomes a kind of emotional sponge. It is not isolated from the pieces around it; the dramatic and sonic components of its companion pieces find their way into its organism…Through the association with Desyatnikov’s new piece the Fantasy was displaced from its customary box, effecting a fundamental change of perspective. In the light of what’s going on in the world, we think that it’s important to distance ourselves from idealising the Fantasy as a perfect, smoothly rounded and amenable piece. There is also a place for angularity. Just as Desyatnikov refrains from smoothing and polishing the piece like a musical Brancusi.”

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
Samson Tsoy, piano

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