Piano Duo EnsariSchuch: Eternity
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Label: Naive
Cat No: V8319
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 22nd March 2024
Contents
Works
Grosse Fuge in B flat major (piano four hands), op.134Variations on a theme by Schumann for 4 hands, op.23
Visions de l'Amen
Artists
Gulru Ensari (piano)Herbert Schuch (piano)
Works
Grosse Fuge in B flat major (piano four hands), op.134Variations on a theme by Schumann for 4 hands, op.23
Visions de l'Amen
Artists
Gulru Ensari (piano)Herbert Schuch (piano)
About
With this album, Turkish-born pianist Gülru Ensari and Romanian-born Herbert Schuch want to provide a space for experience, a place where they can carefully and tentatively approach the subject of eternity.
The connection between Messiaen and Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms? Nothing more or less than a perceived truth. An involuntary connection of lines that are already there, but are drawn into infinity and meet somewhere, like the parallel rails of a dead-straight track that stretches into infinity.
Ten years after his captivating recital, ‘Invocation’, the excellent German pianist, Herbert Schuch, born in 1979 in Romania, comes back to naïve. It is here, with his duo partner and wife, Gülru Ensari, that he presents his new album, ‘Eternity’.
As they did in their past collaborations with the SWR (‘Go East!’ in 2017, ‘Dialogues’ in 2018 and ‘in Search’ in 2022), they mix, within one programme, works for four hands and two pianos.
One of the Schubert’s late masterworks, the Fantasia in F minor, pairs here with the Variations on a theme by Schumann that Brahms composed on a theme that Schumann wrote in 1854. Three extracts from Messiaen’s monumental cycle Visions de l’Amen, composed in 1943 for two pianos, act as grandiose and contemplative interludes, and also as an introduction to the Große Fuge by Beethoven.
For Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch, each of these three works from the Romantic era connects with the divine part of Messiaen’s pieces.
In pushing back the limit of artistic creation, these four uncontested geniuses - Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Messiaen - expressed themselves outside of their times, creating bridges with worlds they would not have known, always expanding, in a never-ending quest for eternity.
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