Andras Schiff & Peter Serkin - Music for Two Pianos: Mozart, Reger, Busoni (1999) 2CDs
András Schiff & Peter Serkin - Music for Two Pianos: Mozart, Reger, Busoni (1999) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 302 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 211 Mb | Scans ~ 39 Mb
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1676/77, 465 062-2 | Time: 01:32:17
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 302 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 211 Mb | Scans ~ 39 Mb
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1676/77, 465 062-2 | Time: 01:32:17
Andras Schiff and Peter Serkin, internationally celebrated and multi-award winning classical soloists, make their New Series debuts with Music for Two Pianos. Regarded as 2 of the greatest pianists of our time, Schiff and Serkin are very seldom heard - as they are here - as piano duo. With this recording, ECM begins a long-term relationship with Andras Schiff, a musician described by Gramophone magazine as "a unique poetic voice among the pianists".
As individual artists, Andras Schiff and Peter Serkin easily count among the first rank of today's pianists, bringing uniquely probing but quite distinctive qualities to the instrument. Yet this disc–featuring works the duo performed together in an unusual 1997 live concert tour–presents a fascinating paradox: their joint playing leads neither to a struggle of egos nor to bland compromise. Mozart's sublimely compressed Fugue in C Minor wonderfully sets the mood for the elaborate contrapuntal proceedings to follow. Max Reger is usually described as a ponderous, pedantic composer on the wrong side of history. But his neo-Brahmsian Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven (the theme in question being from one of the late bagatelles) leads to an end-of-the-world fugue that's quite exciting in the hands of Schiff and Serkin. The way in which their personalities emerge and complement each other often has the effect of peering into a hall of mirrors. The real highlight here is the vast, idiosyncratic aural cathedral conjured by Ferrucio Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica. One of the great eccentric minor masters, Busoni was inspired by Bach's unfinished summa, Art of the Fugue, to construct this half-hour edifice, full of aeries and labyrinthine turns, which also happens to exploit the full potential of the two-piano idiom. After so much counterpoint, the clarity of Mozart's only duo-piano sonata (K. 448) is like a revelation. In their joyous and raptly unified account, Serkin explores disparate shades of softness as he echoes Schiff's glassy runs. A must-have for piano nuts.Review by Thomas May
Ferruccio Busoni's Fantasia contrappuntistica for Two Pianos is an enchanted musical forest, replete with thorny vegetation, sunny, grassy openings, florid paths, and dark, foreboding depths, its final moments expunged in a wild, pagan dance. Okay, so much for letting the imagination run wild–but this is one wild piece, a work Busoni crafted from his own imagination and from the unfinished final section of Bach's Art of Fugue. In fact, three of the four works on this excellent two-disc program are based on fugue subjects and styles. They were deliberately chosen as part of a 1997 New York concert by András Schiff and Peter Serkin that brought these two stylistically divergent pianists into a fascinating and most unusual "contest of temperaments". You'll be impressed with the sheer dynamism of the playing; and although this is a studio recording made near the time of the concert, the pianists' interactive energy and apparent spontaneity are the stuff that usually happens when the best artists are communicating with a live audience. The Max Reger Variations is a marvelous piece that has various levels of intricacy, but a surface of easy accessibility–and a lovely Beethoven tune. The two Mozart double-piano works–a busy, boisterous fugue, and a fabulous sonata that's not a symphony in hiding but a real piano piece–complete this ideally recorded program. Schiff and Serkin may have quite different personal playing styles and temperaments, but when they play this repertoire, they make sparks–and really rip-roaring music.Review by David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Andras Schiff & Peter Serkin - Music for Two Pianos: Mozart, Reger, Busoni (1999) 2CDs
Andras Schiff & Peter Serkin - Music for Two Pianos: Mozart, Reger, Busoni (1999) 2CDs
Tracklist:
CD1:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
01. Fuge in C Minor for Two Pianos K. 426 - Allegro moderato (04:23)
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Variations and Fugue on Theme of Beethoven Op.86
02. Theme: Andante (02:01)
03. Un poco piu lento (02:21)
04. Agitato (01:37)
05. Andantino graziozo (02:16)
06. Andante sostenuto (03:03)
07. Appasionato (01:31)
08. Andante sostenuto (02:55)
09. Vivace (00:58)
10. Sostenuto (02:16)
11. Vivace (01:16)
12. Poco vivace (01:35)
13. Andante con grazia (01:31)
14. Allegro pomposo (02:34)
15. Fuge: Allegro con Spirito (05:47)
CD2:
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Fantasia contrappuntistica 256b
01. Choral-Variationen (09:56)
02. Fuga I (02:27)
03. Fuga II (02:39)
04. Fuga III (05:37)
05. Intermezzo (01:13)
06. Variatio I (01:17)
07. Variatio II (00:52)
08. Variatio III (01:02)
09. Cadenza (01:32)
10. Fuga IV (01:50)
11. Corale (00:50)
12. Stretta (01:59)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata in D Major K. 448/375a
13. I. Allegro con spirito (08:06)
14. II. Andante (10:15)
15. III. Allegro molto (06:23)
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Andras Schiff & Peter Serkin - Music for Two Pianos: Mozart, Reger, Busoni (1999) 2CDs
