Rihm/Bartok: Schrift-Um-Schrift
Graumacher Piano Duo, Franz Schindlbeck & Jan Schlichte (percussion)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
This performance is a model of sustained alertness, the recording admirably spacious and sonorous.
Rihm/Bartok: Schrift-Um-Schrift
Graumacher Piano Duo, Franz Schindlbeck & Jan Schlichte (percussion)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
This performance is a model of sustained alertness, the recording admirably spacious and sonorous.
About
Bartók wrote this sonata in 1937, having already written his epoch-making Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Rihm’s work is dated 1993/2007. It enjoys a successive development of discrete musical events and attenuated sounds, transformed into a space filled with echoes and resonances.
Contents and tracklist
- Franz Schindlbeck, Jan Schlichte
- GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
- Franz Schindlbeck, Jan Schlichte
- GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMarch 2011Editor's Choice
March 2011
This performance is a model of sustained alertness, the recording admirably spacious and sonorous.
28th November 2010
Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion is a marvel of 20th-century music, an uncanny fusion of the cerebral and the visceral, the folkloristic and geometrical. It is played here with a keen ear for both kinds of attribute, coolly, passionately and altogether thrillingly
6th January 2011
Schrift-Um-Schrift was composed by Wolfgang Rihm as a companion piece to Bartók's great sonata, and certainly uses the pairs of percussionists and pianists to create a shimmering, delicate soundworld that occasionally snaps into focus with much more sharply defined musical objects...Alongside it the Bartók sonata seems a model of clarity and vivid originality
