Prom 73 - 5.09.13: Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis play Schubert

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall

Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 (33 mins)
Schubert
Piano Sonata in C major, D812, 'Grand Duo' (39 mins)

Imogen Cooper piano
Paul Lewis piano, New Generation Artist

Pianists Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis return for the final Late Night Prom of the festival. Cooper plays Schubert's late, great Piano Sonata in C minor, its scherzo still informed by the Rossinian joie de vivre of the early symphonies, the surrounding movements infused with the sorrow and resignation of the song-cycles Winterreise and Schwanengesang. Published posthumously, the symphonically conceived Grand Duo dates from the summer of 1824 when the composer was engaged as music master to Marie and Caroline Esterhazy on the family's Slovakian estate.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I first heard the Grand Duo in an orchestration by Weingartner, as the work was then thought to be the composer's "lost" Gastein Symphony.

[BBMmk2]

I have three versions of the Grand Duo. Two of the piano and one with the CoE/Abbado. I have the Britten/Curzon(?), and Kissin/Levine.

[amac4165]

I first heard the Grand Duo in an orchestration by Weingartner, as the work was then thought to be the composer's "lost" Gastein Symphony.

Well that answers my question on other thread !

A cracking concert -

[Roehre]

I first heard the Grand Duo in an orchestration by Weingartner, as the work was then thought to be the composer's "lost" Gastein Symphony.

I first heard the Grand Duo in an orchestration by Joseph Joachim, his 1975-recording by Marc Andreae with the Munich Philharmonic (on a BASF-LP, later released on Acanta(/Bellaphon)

[Mr Pee]

http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/prom-73-imogen-cooper-paul-lewis

[gurnemanz]

I got to know it umpteen years ago by recording it off the radio with Edith Vogel and James Gibb (recently deceased at 95).