About this product
Title: Symphonies 2
Artist: Tessa Uys
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 748871065024
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022-04-29
Number of Discs: 1
SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the eagerly-awaited second volume of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo's ground-breaking series exploring Franz Xaver Scharwenka's transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies. A composer of no mean stature in his own right, Scharwenka's transcriptions were once widely admired, his treatments of Beethoven's symphonies a high-watermark of the genre. Volume 1 (SOMMCD 0637) met with universal acclaim; Gramophone praising the mastery of the performances, BBC Music finding it utterly beguiling and MusicWeb International declaring I was blown away by this magnificent recording. Volume 2 features the first recording of Scharwenka's transcription of Beethoven's iconic Fifth Symphony for piano duet. Claiming a direct connection to Beethoven via his teacher Franz Kullak, who had studied with Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny, Scharwenka provides a virtuosic re-imagining of the Fifth's tremendous scale, organic growth and seething energy. The Variations on a Theme of Beethoven by Saint-Saëns show him, Robert Matthew-Walker says in his informative booklet notes, at his most brilliant and searching... beautiful, imposing and elegant, as well as humorous. Robert Schumann's Andante and Variations in B-flat reveal Romanticism's quintessential musical poet at his most emotionally acute: overhung with a pervading sense of intimacy, the music unfolds as a series of reflections upon the Andante theme, refracted in genuine variation styles of tempo, rhythm, tonalities (beautifully implied) and character.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony No.5 in C minor
1.2 Andante and Variations in B-Flat Major, Op.46B
1.3 Variations on a Theme of Beethoven in E-Flat Major, Op.35
Artist: Tessa Uys
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 748871065024
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022-04-29
Number of Discs: 1
SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the eagerly-awaited second volume of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo's ground-breaking series exploring Franz Xaver Scharwenka's transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies. A composer of no mean stature in his own right, Scharwenka's transcriptions were once widely admired, his treatments of Beethoven's symphonies a high-watermark of the genre. Volume 1 (SOMMCD 0637) met with universal acclaim; Gramophone praising the mastery of the performances, BBC Music finding it utterly beguiling and MusicWeb International declaring I was blown away by this magnificent recording. Volume 2 features the first recording of Scharwenka's transcription of Beethoven's iconic Fifth Symphony for piano duet. Claiming a direct connection to Beethoven via his teacher Franz Kullak, who had studied with Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny, Scharwenka provides a virtuosic re-imagining of the Fifth's tremendous scale, organic growth and seething energy. The Variations on a Theme of Beethoven by Saint-Saëns show him, Robert Matthew-Walker says in his informative booklet notes, at his most brilliant and searching... beautiful, imposing and elegant, as well as humorous. Robert Schumann's Andante and Variations in B-flat reveal Romanticism's quintessential musical poet at his most emotionally acute: overhung with a pervading sense of intimacy, the music unfolds as a series of reflections upon the Andante theme, refracted in genuine variation styles of tempo, rhythm, tonalities (beautifully implied) and character.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony No.5 in C minor
1.2 Andante and Variations in B-Flat Major, Op.46B
1.3 Variations on a Theme of Beethoven in E-Flat Major, Op.35
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