Beethoven - Works for Piano Four Hands
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Label: Delphian
Cat No: DCD34221
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 31st January 2020
Contents
Works
Grosse Fuge in B flat major (piano four hands), op.134Marches (3) for piano four hands, op.45
Sonata for piano four hands in D major, op.6
Variations (6) on 'Ich denke Dein', WoO74
Variations (8) on a theme by Count Waldstein, WoO67
Artists
Peter Hill (piano)Benjamin Frith (piano)
Works
Grosse Fuge in B flat major (piano four hands), op.134Marches (3) for piano four hands, op.45
Sonata for piano four hands in D major, op.6
Variations (6) on 'Ich denke Dein', WoO74
Variations (8) on a theme by Count Waldstein, WoO67
Artists
Peter Hill (piano)Benjamin Frith (piano)
About
Works from his early years in Bonn and from the period of the ‘Eroica’ Symphony, a decade later, are joined by a unique masterpiece from the year before his death. In 1826 Beethoven was persuaded to publish an arrangement for piano duet of the Grosse Fuge, finale of the String Quartet in B flat, op.130, which had astonished and bewildered listeners at the Quartet’s first performance. He took great care over the arrangement, effectively re-imagining the work in terms of the piano, for example in exploiting the added sonority of the bass (Beethoven’s Broadwood piano extended an octave below the C string of the cello).
The result is a tour de force of pianistic virtuosity, the equivalent for the nineteenth century of Stravinsky’s piano duet version of The Rite of Spring, and like the Stravinsky nothing less than the recreation of a masterpiece in another medium.
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