Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise - Variations on an Original Theme in A-flat

Divertissement à la hongroise in G minor, Op. 54, D. 818 (1824) 
for Piano Four-Hands

I. Andante; Un poco più mosso

II. Marcia: Andante con moto; Trio

III. Allegretto

Variations on an Original Theme in A-flat, Op. 33, D. 813 (1824) 
for Piano Four-Hands

Jörg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda

Hammerflügel of Johann Michael Schweighofer, Vienna, c.1845

(LP transfers; recorded c. 1963, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

(Deutsche Harmonia Mundi; issued 1968; RCA / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

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No. 3 from the series "Claviermusik auf Instrumenten der Meister", an RCA reissue appearing in 1968. The original LP pressings of this DHM series from the early 1960s are extremely difficult to find (even in Germany). Fortunately, a photo of the Hammerflügel from the famous maker Michael Schweighofer appears on the RCA cover. This instrument, as beautiful to see as it is to hear, sits in the vicinity of the Schumann-Piano in the instrument collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.