Piano Duo Scholtes and Janssens

Piano Duo Scholtes and Janssens – Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448/375a | Fantasie for Piano Four Hands in F Minor, D. 940 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:18 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Klassik
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Challenge Classics

Scholtes and Janssens were just 18 and 19 years old when they first ventured to play Mozart’s Sonata for two pianos. They had only been playing together for a year at the time. Schubert’s Fantasy in F followed shortly afterwards. Now, 17 years on, they are finally brave enough to record these two iconic works. Over recent years, these two works have taken on the role of critical teachers, sources of inspiration and motivation for them to keep on developing, as a duo certainly, but also and mainly as individual musicians. Scholtes and Janssens have been challenged by legendary recordings made by the likes of Radu Lupu & Murray Perahia, Josef & Rosina Lhevinne, and father and son Neuhaus to discover our own sound, both in this music and elsewhere.
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