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.

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.

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.

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)

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.