Patricia Verhagen | Paul Komen
Four Hands Piano Music
- Type CD
- Label Globe
- UPC 8711525518803
- Catalog number GLO 5188
- Release date 19 August 2002
About the album
Four brilliant works for piano four hands, including two which are very rarely heard and unjustly neglected: the sonatas by Hermann Goetz and Albert Dietrich. Schumann as well as Brahms only left a limited number of works for the form although they both loved four-handed piano playing. However, in the works recorded here they show themselves as great masters of the genre. Albert Dietrich was a great friend and protege of Schumann as well as Brahms, greatly valued as a composer during his lifetime, but nowadays unjustly forgotten. The body of work he left is not very large, but extremely varied because in most cases he only wrote one or two works for the usual musical genres of his time. Hermann Goetz is chiefly known through his opera Der widerspenstigen Zahmung (The Taming of the Shrew), still regarded as one of the best 19th century German comic operas. He also wrote a number of exceptional chamber music works, of which the lyrical Sonata in G minor for piano four hands impresses through its finely-treated polyphonic textures.
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11Bilder Aus Osten (Oriental Pictures) - 6 Impromptus, Op. 66 for Piano Four Hands: I. Lebhaft
03:15 -
12Bilder Aus Osten (Oriental Pictures) - 6 Impromptus, Op. 66 for Piano Four Hands: II. Nicht Schnell Und Sehr Gesangvoll Zu Spielen
02:18 -
13Bilder Aus Osten (Oriental Pictures) - 6 Impromptus, Op. 66 for Piano Four Hands: III. Im Volkston
01:58 -
14Bilder Aus Osten (Oriental Pictures) - 6 Impromptus, Op. 66 for Piano Four Hands: IV. Nicht Schnell
02:08 -
15Bilder Aus Osten (Oriental Pictures) - 6 Impromptus, Op. 66 for Piano Four Hands: V. Lebhaft
03:02 -
16Bilder Aus Osten (Oriental Pictures) - 6 Impromptus, Op. 66 for Piano Four Hands: VI. Reuig, Andächtig
04:21 -
17Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 for Piano Four Hands: I. Langsam - Sehr Lebhaft
08:36 -
18Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 for Piano Four Hands: II. Mässig Bewegt
04:23 -
19Sonata in G Minor, Op. 17 for Piano Four Hands: III. Langsam - Graziös Und Nicht Zu Rasch
06:19 -
110Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Thema. Leise Und Innig
01:06 -
111Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation I. L'istesso Tempo. Andante Molto Moderato
00:59 -
112Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation II
01:11 -
113Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation III
01:27 -
114Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation IV
01:33 -
115Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation V. Poco Più Animato
01:00 -
116Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation VI. Allegro Non Troppo
01:11 -
117Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation VII. Con Moto. L'istesso Tempo
01:09 -
118Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation VIII. Poco Più Vivo
00:43 -
119Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation IX
01:34 -
120Variations On a Theme By Schumann, Op. 23 for Piano Four Hands: Variation X. Molto Moderato, Alla Marcia
02:29 -
121Sonata in G Major, Op. 19 for Piano Four Hands: I. Allegretto
08:03 -
122Sonata in G Major, Op. 19 for Piano Four Hands: II. Scherzo. Vivace
07:06 -
123Sonata in G Major, Op. 19 for Piano Four Hands: III. Andante Sostenuto
03:30 -
124Sonata in G Major, Op. 19 for Piano Four Hands: IV. Lento - Allegro Vivace - Con Fuoco, Non Troppo Presto
07:09