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SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata D. 960; Fantasie for piano, four hands, D. 940; Marche militaire, D. 733 – Philippe Entremont, piano/ Gen Tomuro, piano – Solo Musica 

by Audiophile Audition | Apr 5, 2018 | Classical CD Reviews

Philippe Entremont fulfills a personal project to record the Schubert keyboard music he most treasures.  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major, D. 960; Fantasie in f minor for Piano, Four hands, D. 940; Marche militaire in D Major, D. 733, No. 1 – Philippe Entremont, piano/ Gen Tomuro, piano – Solo Musica SM 276, 68:42 (2/2/18)  [Distr. by Sony] ****:  Sometime around 1980 I met and spoke to Philippe Entremont (b. 1934) after a recital at the Atlanta Fox Theater, during which I mentioned how appropriate I thought his tone and touch would suit the music of Schubert. “I dearly love Schubert,” Entremont replied, “but I have yet to address him in the recording studio.”  Now, almost 40 years later, Entremont fulfills his own, long-deferred project to record Schubert’s music for posterity. He chooses as his major work Schubert’s late (1828) Sonata in B-flat Major, the last of a triptych that testify to something like Schubert’s inner compulsion to express himself in the form. The already expansive first movement Molto moderato assumes even greater breadth with Entremont’s taking the repeat.  A realization of Schubert’s sensitivity to loss, the music interrupts the opening statement with a disturbed trill on […]