H. and K.U. Schnabel enjoyed an enviable reputation across Europe and the United States as the 4-hand duo playing as one. Their repertoire spanned a wide range of original music written for piano duet. The first of two 2-CD sets features: Bizet, five pieces from Jeux d’Enfants; Debussy, three pieces from Six Epigraphes Antiques; Schubert, a selection from Herold’s "Marie" Variations, and the Fantasy, Op. 103; Mozart: Sonata K. 381, the Concerto K. 365, and the Sonata for two pianos K. 448.

H. and K.U. Schnabel enjoyed an enviable reputation across Europe and the United States as the 4-hand duo playing as one. Their repertoire spanned a wide range of original music written for piano duet. The second of two 2-CD sets features: Mozart, Concerto in F Major for Three Pianos, K. 242; Brahms, 8 Hungarian Dances; Schubert, 4 Polonaises, Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 30; Mendelssohn, Allegro Brillant, Op. 92, and Andante tranquillo con variazioni, Op. 83a; Weber, Five Pieces from Op. 10 and Op. 60.

The Schnabel fourhand duo performed with great success all across America and Europe. They were known to truly play as one. On this 2-CD set a selection of their eclectic repertoire is presented encompassing such diverse composers as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonin Dvorak, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johannes Brahms.

This is the 1983 debut album of Joan Rowland and Karl Ulrich Schnabel as Duo Schnabel. Schubert's Grand Duo is a towering masterpiece for one piano, four hands. The work has the proportions and the quality of a major symphony. It is surely no less important than any of Schubert's symphonies, and the Duo Schnabel performs the piece in this recording with an orchestral approach, without sacrificing the pianistic sonorities. The Variations in B flat are light-hearted, charming, and brilliantly conceived for the piano.

Mozart Sonata in F Major (K. 497); Schubert Divertissement (Sonata in E minor) on original French themes (D. 823); Schubert Eight Variations on a theme from Herold's opera, "Marie" (D. 908)

One piano, four hands. Music of an intensely pastoral and nationalistic flavor, these are among the most romantic and folk inspired pieces ever composed. The feeling of an enchanted atmosphere is present at all times in this music. The Duo Schnabel generates just the right feeling of dance throughout.

A celebration for K.U. Schnabel’s 90th birthday. Karl Ulrich Schnabel had an illustrious career as pianist and master teacher. A 70-year retrospective of solo recordings of pianist Karl Ulrich Schnabel, and duo-piano recordings with Helen Schnabel, Joan Rowland, and Leonard Shure. The 2-CD set comprises compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Carl Maria von Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt, Antonin Dvorak, and Clara Schumann.

Karl Ulrich Schnabel was highly regarded as a master teacher by a whole generation of pianists for his deep knowledge and understanding of the essence of the great classical composers. On this CD he performs what he taught, exquisite renditions of Mozart and Beethoven piano solo works. The CD comprises Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasy in c minor, K. 475; Sonata in c minor, K. 457; Andante in F Major, K. 616; and Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E Major, Op. 109.

K.U. Schnabel accompanied his mother, the eminent Lieder singer Therese Behr already as a teenager. Here he received the deep and intimate knowledge necessary to interpret the classical composers including Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert with the incredible breadth of emotions he demonstrated and also taught throughout his life. This all Schubert CD comprises the Sonata in a minor, Op. 42, D. 845, the Moments Musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780, and the Wanderer Fantasy, Op. 15, D. 760.