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The contents of this release are a good deal less adventurous than the marketing would suggest, but that doesn't mean it's not a fine program of duo piano music from the 19th through the 21st centuries. With the exception of the opening minimalist A Soft Shell Groove by one of the pianists, Francesco Tristano, all the music is played in transcriptions by the composers themselves and sounds as it would have in the days when it was commissioned by dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev (who commissioned all three of the earlier works). The best news is that these transcriptions are somewhat neglected, and Tristano and his performing partner Alice Sara Ott essentially re-create what would have been an exciting program of avant-garde music from the time just before the mass distribution of recordings. Stravinsky's condensation of the vast orchestra canvas of Le Sacre du printemps is especially nifty, and the duo shifts gears effectively between Stravinsky and the much more sentimental world of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. All the music is rooted in dance, but the contrasts among the four works are enormous. The concluding La Valse is as dark a vision of a doomed decadent society as one might wish, with waltz tunes threading their way through growing cacophony as intricately as in the orchestral version. Here and in the Stravinsky, the performers are not afraid to give the music percussive shock by banging on the keys when called for. Well worth the time of duo piano fans.
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Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Francesco Tristano, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Le sacre du printemps (Version for Piano Duet) (Various Composers)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Francesco Tristano, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Francesco Tristano, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Various Composers)
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Composer - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Francesco Tristano, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alice Sara Ott, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Francesco Tristano, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lucien Garban, Contributor, Transcription
℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
The contents of this release are a good deal less adventurous than the marketing would suggest, but that doesn't mean it's not a fine program of duo piano music from the 19th through the 21st centuries. With the exception of the opening minimalist A Soft Shell Groove by one of the pianists, Francesco Tristano, all the music is played in transcriptions by the composers themselves and sounds as it would have in the days when it was commissioned by dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev (who commissioned all three of the earlier works). The best news is that these transcriptions are somewhat neglected, and Tristano and his performing partner Alice Sara Ott essentially re-create what would have been an exciting program of avant-garde music from the time just before the mass distribution of recordings. Stravinsky's condensation of the vast orchestra canvas of Le Sacre du printemps is especially nifty, and the duo shifts gears effectively between Stravinsky and the much more sentimental world of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. All the music is rooted in dance, but the contrasts among the four works are enormous. The concluding La Valse is as dark a vision of a doomed decadent society as one might wish, with waltz tunes threading their way through growing cacophony as intricately as in the orchestral version. Here and in the Stravinsky, the performers are not afraid to give the music percussive shock by banging on the keys when called for. Well worth the time of duo piano fans.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 5 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:55
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alice Sara Ott Francesco Tristano Schlimé
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
© 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, Under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2014 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, Under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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