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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".
Title: | Symphonies 2 |
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Genre: | Classical |
Composers: | Camille Saint-Saens, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann |
Label: | Somm Recordings |
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Release Date: | 4/29/2022 |
Product Type: | CD |
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UPC: | 748871065024 |
Item #: | 2478636X |