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Almost three decades have passed since Katia and Marielle Labèque last performed at the Alte Oper - high time for a reunion with the sisters, who are among the leading piano duos of our time. Franz Schubert's large-scale Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands remains at the heart of the two pianists' repertoire. Schubert wrote it six months before his death. It is thought that his unhappy love affair with his piano pupil Caroline von Esterházy shaped the work's desperately resigned mood. The two Labèque sisters have repeatedly demonstrated in the concert hall and on CD their sense of the depth of the fantasy and how well they work as a unit in interpreting this legacy. Rarely has Schubert's despair been presented so openly, brutally and at the same time so sensitively in its resigned nuances', wrote the ZEIT newspaper about their CD recording of the work.
