(1989) Franz Schubert: Works for Piano 4 Hands Vol. II id_qobuz:Franz Schubert including the Opera Bastille in

including the Opera Bastille in Paris

a light rather like the sun of Nordic summers

But look at the result

But it was exactly with this excess and intransigence that Schoeck captured the spirit of Goethe’s three lines

to resort to the piano tends to "modernise" his world

(1989) Franz Schubert: Works for Piano 4 Hands Vol. II id_qobuz:Franz Schubert including the Opera Bastille inIt is no longer that happy time of life when we see every object wreathed in the glory of youth, but that fatal recognition of a wretched reality which I endeavor, with my imagination, to embellish as best I can. You will find evidence of this in two works for four hand piano which I have already composed: a grand duo and a set of variations [D. 812, D. 813] on a theme of my own invention. The variations are proving to be an outstanding success. Franz