Brahms: Waltzes for piano four-hands
Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov (piano)
Brahms: Waltzes for piano four-hands
Fiammetta Tarli & Ivo Varbanov (piano)
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The first release of ICSM Records (ICSM Records 001) features the complete recording of Brahms four-hand Waltzes. Dance music was in Johannes Brahms’s blood. Two particular dance-measures fascinated him throughout his life, the waltz and the Hungarian Czárdás. Here we explore what he could do with waltz-rhythms, even on the smallest scale, in the medium of the piano duet. Brahms’s two sets of Liebeslieder-Walzer (Love-song Waltzes) used to be among his best-known works. These beguiling little waltz-songs remind us of a time before radio or television, when domestic music-making was a fact of life, a time when ‘quartet parties’ were frequent and when families would gather around the piano to play and sing for their evening entertainment. Performed by Tarli and Varbanov, the two interpreters enrapt the listener with an imaginary fantasy on the waltz form whose underlying theme is love.
Contents and tracklist
- Fiammetta Tarli (piano), Ivo Varbanov (piano)
- Recorded: 1 March 2013
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
- Fiammetta Tarli (piano), Ivo Varbanov (piano)
- Recorded: 1 March 2013
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
- Fiammetta Tarli (piano), Ivo Varbanov (piano)
- Recorded: 1 March 2013
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
