Rzewski - The People United will never be Defeated!, Four Hands
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Label: Cedille Records
Cat No: CDR90000158
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th August 2015
Contents
Works
Four HandsVariations (36) on El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido (The People United Will Never Be Defeated)
Artists
Ursula Oppens (piano)Jerome Lowenthal (piano)
Works
Four HandsVariations (36) on El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido (The People United Will Never Be Defeated)
Artists
Ursula Oppens (piano)Jerome Lowenthal (piano)
About
This riveting, audience-pleasing tour-de-force is a nearly hour-long set of 36 variations on a popular Chilean protest song from the era of Augusto Pinochet’s repressive right-wing military dictatorship. AllMusic.com applauds it as a work “of bewildering and amazing variety, ranging from serialism to jazz to romanticism to the further reaches of the avant-garde and back” and culminating in “a superbly emotional climax.”
Oppens’ world-premiere recording of The People United Will Never Be Defeated! was released in 1978 by Vanguard on analog LP and later reissued on CD. This new recording offers the advantages of Cedille’s 21st-century audiophile production values and an interpretation that benefits from Oppens’s four-decade association with the work.
Another bonus is the world-premiere recording of a new Rzewski work, Four Hands, a duet commissioned by and written for Oppens and pianist Jerome Lowenthal, her duet partner on the recording. Fiercely challenging to perform, it leaves the listener “absorbed and exhilarated” (New York Times).
Sound/Video
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1The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Theme. With Determination
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2The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 1, Weaving. Delicate But Firm
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3The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 2, With Firmness
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4The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 3, Slightly Slower, With Expressive Nuances
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5The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 4, Marcato
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6The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 5, Dreamlike, Frozen
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7The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 6, Same Tempo As Beginning
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8The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 7, Tempo (Lightly, Impatiently)
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9The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 8, With Agility. Not Too Much Pedal. Crisp
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10The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 9, Evenly
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11The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 10, Comodo, Recklessly
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12The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 11, Tempo I. Like Fragments Of An Absent Melody. In Strict Time
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13The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 12
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14The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 13, Quarter Note = 72 Or Slightly Faster
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15The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 14, A Bit Faster. Optimistically
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16The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 15, Flexible, Like An Improvisation
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17The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 16, Same Tempo As Preceding, With Fluctuations. Much Pedal
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18The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 17, Left Hand Strictly, Half Note = 36. Right Hand Freely, Roughly As In Space
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19The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 18, Quarter Note = 72
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20The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 19, With Energy
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21The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 20, Crisp, Precise
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22The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 21, Relentless, Uncompromising
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23The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 22, Quarter Note = 132
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24The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 23, As Fast As Possible, With Some Rubato
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25The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 24, Quarter Note = 72
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26The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 25, Quarter Note = Ca. 84, With Fluctuations
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27The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 26, In A Militant Manner
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28The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 27, Tenderly, And With A Hopeful Expression
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29The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 28, Quarter Note = 160
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30The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 29, Quarter Note = 144-152
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31The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 30, Quarter Note = 84
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32The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 31
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33The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 32
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34The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 33
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35The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 34
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36The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 35
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37The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Var. 36
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38The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Cadenza
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39The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Thema. Tempo I
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404 Hands: I. Quarter Note = 96-104
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414 Hands: II. Senza Misura (Ca. 30 Seconds Per Line)
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424 Hands: III. Quarter Note = 72
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434 Hands: IV. Quarter Note = 96
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