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Release Date: 25th Feb 2022
Catalogue No: AVI8553214
Label: Avi Music
Length: 63 minutes

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Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72: No. 1, Molto vivace

Work length4:14

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Guelru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Brahms: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1: No. 2, Allegro non ssai

Work length3:37

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Brahms: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1: No. 11, Poco Andate

Work length3:03

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72: No. 2, Allegretto Grazioso

Work length4:35

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Brahms: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1: No. 4, Poco sostenuto

Work length3:34

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72: No. 5, Poco Adagio

Work length2:44

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Brahms: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1: No. 6, Vivace

Work length3:09

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Brahms: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1: No. 1, Allegro molto

Work length3:12

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72: No. 7, Presto

Work length3:16

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, TH 35

Work length21:59

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

I. Ouverture. Allegro giusto (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length3:08

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II. Danses charactéristiques: March, Temo di marcia vivo (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length2:25

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Danse de la Fée Dragée, Andante non troppo (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length2:05

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Danse Russe Trepak, Tempo di Trepak, molto vivace (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length1:08

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Danse Arabe, Allegretto (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length3:12

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Danse Chinoise, Allegro moderato (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length1:03

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Danse de Mirlitons, Moderato assai (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length2:19

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III. Valse des Fleurs, Tempo di Valse (Arr. for Two Pianos by Nicolas Economou)

Track length6:39

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Oğuzhan BalcI: Sarmal, for Piano Four Hands

Work length9:39

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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch
Recorded: 2022

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Herbert Schuch and Gulru Ensari look back on musical memories of their childhoods.

Although they each spent their childhood in thoroughly different circumstances, Herbert Schuch and Gulru Ensari feel somehow connected through memories of their first musical moments.

Herbert grew up until the age of nine in the Romanian countryside near the Hungarian border, during the bleak last years of communism. Born in Istanbul, Gulru grew up as a city dweller. "We both had a record player at home", she remarks, to show what they had in common. Now, as a married couple and piano duo, they have found time and leisure during the pandemic to look back on the past. Overjoyed by the birth of their daughter, they shared memories of certain moments from their own childhood that seem to stand still in time.

For this album, "In search of...", they looked for music they associate with those moments. In so doing, they were also searching for their own identity. Herbert belongs to the minority of the Banat Swabians: "Although there was no direct Hungarian lineage in my family, the language and culture of Hungary played a significant role in our lives. Conversely, although we were in Romania, we practically had no points of contact with Romanian culture", he remembers. "The pieces we played at home back then would have seemed out of place on this album; in my parents' home, we exclusively played the Hungarian operetta tunes that were en vogue. My uncle sang, and he was accompanied at the piano by my father, who had brought back LPs from the GDR." On the other hand, in Istanbul, Gulru was strongly influenced by Western culture. At home, she only heard Classical music: Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky the composers now featured on this CD. "I grew up with VHS videotapes. I watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Fantasia countless times, with the original music from Tchaikovsky's ballets", she remembers. In search for similar memories from childhood, Tchaikovsky was the first common denominator the couple found that they shared. "We both remember having listened to the Nutcracker Suite when we were children", Herbert remarks.

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