Famous Works for Piano Duo
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96433
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 8th April 2022
Contents
Works
Variations on a Theme by Paganini (arr. for 2 pianos)Visions de l'Amen
La Valse (two pianos)
Variations on a theme by Beethoven, op.35
Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, op.103 D940
The Rake's Progress
Monologe
Artists
Piano Duo Van VeenWorks
Variations on a Theme by Paganini (arr. for 2 pianos)Visions de l'Amen
La Valse (two pianos)
Variations on a theme by Beethoven, op.35
Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, op.103 D940
The Rake's Progress
Monologe
Artists
Piano Duo Van VeenAbout
This pocket history of the piano duo opens – as it must – with the F minor Fantasy of Schubert. All elements of Schubert's art can be found in the Fantasy: his gift for a sublime, gently unfolding melody; melancholy harmonic turns from major to minor; high drama within a spacious symphonic design; intricate counterpoint in the finale. Less well known but no less accomplished in its way is the set of Beethoven variations by Camille Saint-Saëns, a polished transformation of a minuet theme.
This 1992 studio recording concludes with a pair of 20th-century pieces which capitalise on the energy and momentum of the piano duo genre as a whole: La Valse of Ravel and the Paganini Variations of Lutosławski, which never fail to raise the pulse and receive here barnstorming performances.
The adrenaline level increases further with a sequence of live performances on CD2, opening with Rachmaninov’s gorgeous Russian Rhapsody and continuing with The Rite of Spring in the version which Stravinsky first performed with his friends in Paris prior to the ballet’s notorious public premiere in 1911. In his Monologue of 1964, Zimmermann developed the thread of his Dialogue for two pianos and orchestra with a collage technique which quotes from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in which the two pianists muse almost to themselves at times. Rounding off this collection in epic style is the apotheosis of Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen.
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