CAROLINE CLEMMOW & ANTHONY GOLDSTONE

With CDs numbering twenty-three and a busy concert schedule, the British piano duo Goldstone and Clemmow is firmly established as a leading force.

Described by Gramophone as "a dazzling husband and wife team", internationally known artists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow formed their duo in 1984 and married in 1989. Their extremely diverse activities in two-piano and piano-duet recitals and double concertos, taking in major festivals, have sent them all over the British Isles as well as to Europe, the Middle East and several times to the U.S.A., where they have received standing ovations and such press accolades as "revelations such as this are rare in the concert hall these days" (Charleston Post and Courier). In their refreshingly presented concerts they mix famous masterpieces and fascinating rarities, which they frequently unearth themselves, into absorbing and hugely entertaining programmes; their numerous B.B.C. broadcasts have often included first hearings of unjustly neglected works, and their equally enterprising and acclaimed commercial recordings include many world premières.

Having presented the complete duets of Mozart for the bicentenary, they decided to accept the much greater challenge of performing the vast quantity of music written by Schubert specifically for four hands at one piano. This they first did in 1993 - and have since repeated several times - in a mammoth cycle of seven concerts, which in its completeness (including works not found in the collected edition) and original recital format was probably a world first. The Musical Times wrote of this venture: "The Goldstone/Clemmow performances invited one superlative after another." The complete cycle (as a rare bonus including as encores Schumann's eight Schubert-inspired Polonaises) is available on seven CDs. "Haunted with the spirit of Schubert" - Luister, The Netherlands.