Name: Works For Two Pianos - Eight Hands
SKU: 9421000503130

Works For Two Pianos – Eight Hands

Tui (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Into the Chasm (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Bintang (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Bottom’s Dance (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Efflux (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Hammerheads (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Stücke Nr. 1-2 (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Nr. 1 (ohne Satzbezeichnung)
Nr. 2 (ohne Satzbezeichnung)
Rags Nr. 1-3 (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)
Nr. 1 Those Ragtime-Caravan Blues
Nr. 2 Mister Bones’ Rag
Nr. 3 The Estrella Rag
Ghost Dance (für 2 Klaviere zu 8 Händen)

Estrella Quartet

Reference: 0000313ACD
Barcode: 9421000503130
Length: 1:02:11
Label: Atoll

Format: 1 CD

Release date: 1/11/2015

UGS : 9421000503130 Catégories : CD, Classical

20,90€

in Piano International (Sep, 2015)
Estrella are a New Zealand-based ensemble who have melded the two-piano and four-hand genres into one for four players, eight hands, at two keyboards. Their programme of New Zealand pieces contain several written specially for them within the last five years, though several are arrangements for eight hands of earlier works. Gareth Farr’s driving apprentice essay Into the Chasm (1988) is a curious combination of dodecaphony and minimalism concluding with a 42-note chord! John Rimmer’s Hammerheads (2008) draws part of its material from a single chord in The Rite of Spring. The title-track, Hamilton’s Tui, is a hushed impressionistic tone poem of a New Zealand bird, framed by taped birdsong. The …