Special offer. Schubert: Four Hands
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Recording of the Month
[They] consistently transcend matters of ensemble synchronicity and textural balances, going directly to the music's heart and soul...An instant classic.
Special offer. Schubert: Four Hands
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Recording of the Month
[They] consistently transcend matters of ensemble synchronicity and textural balances, going directly to the music's heart and soul...An instant classic.
About
Pianists Bertrand Chamayou and Leif Ove Andsnes join forces to record Schubert’s magnificent Fantasia in F minor, presenting a landmark Schubert 4 Hands album. This release arrives 40 years after Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia’s legendary CBS recording and 60 years after Benjamin Britten and Sviatoslav Richter’s historic Aldeburgh Festival performance.
The duo delivers breathtaking interpretations that could establish this recording as the new reference for Schubert’s Fantasia. The album pairs the Fantasia with other Schubert four-hand works composed in 1828, the year of the composer’s death, offering a deeply intimate and historically informed program.
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Leif Ove Andsnes on Schubert for Four Hands
20th Jan 2026
The Norwegian pianist discusses sharing a keyboard with his friend Bertrand Chamayou for a mesmerising programme of late Schubert, which began life at Andsnes's chamber music festival in the fjords a decade ago.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2025
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2026Recording of the Month
January 2026
[They] consistently transcend matters of ensemble synchronicity and textural balances, going directly to the music's heart and soul...An instant classic.
Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou are thoughtful musicians, and it’s immediately apparent from these affectionately searching accounts that they possess an emotional synergy. The great F minor Fantasia finds the Norwegian spinning seamless lyrical lines over the Frenchman’s cushioned bass.
27th November 2025
Fleet precision reaches its peak in the scherzo [of the Fantasie]; elsewhere, decorative fingering comes perfectly aligned with sturdy chords, while tender phrasing always adorns the ruminative lyrical theme guaranteed to touch your heart...this is a divine album.
