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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies for Piano Duo, Vol.1
arr. Xaver Scharwenka
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman (piano duo)
Rather than adopt contemporary period instrument rhetoric and fleet-footed tempos, Uys and Schoeman set their interpretative compass around the mid-20th century – I was reminded on more than...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies for Piano Duo, Vol.1
arr. Xaver Scharwenka
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman (piano duo)
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Rather than adopt contemporary period instrument rhetoric and fleet-footed tempos, Uys and Schoeman set their interpretative compass around the mid-20th century – I was reminded on more than...
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"SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major six-volume series of Franz Xaver Scharwenka’s transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies featuring the label debut of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo. Formed in 2010, the Duo began their in-concert exploration of Scharwenka’s four-hand Beethoven transcriptions in 2015 and now bring that experience to disc for the first time. Volume 1 includes the premiere recording of Scharwenka’s piano duet transcription of Symphony No.3, the ever-popular Eroica, and Debussy’s two-piano arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Six Studies in Canonic Form."
Contents and tracklist
- Arr. F.X. Scharwenka for Piano 4 Hands
- Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman
- Arr. C. Debussy for 2 Pianos
- Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman
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Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman on Beethoven and Scharwenka
27th Jul 2021
The piano duo talk about their new series of recordings of Beethoven's symphonies transcribed by Scharwenka, and discuss the unique musical changes that took place over Scharwenka's own lifetime.
Awards and reviews
October 2021
Rather than adopt contemporary period instrument rhetoric and fleet-footed tempos, Uys and Schoeman set their interpretative compass around the mid-20th century – I was reminded on more than one occasion of Otto Klemperer’s structural integrity and unflinching tonal focus.
18th July 2021
This is the first recording of his Eroica, and first in a Somm survey of all nine such arrangements. In the pure state, as it were, and splendidly put across, the work’s argument has a drivenness and gloriousness that seem to define what a musical argument might be.
