Eternity

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Release Date: 22nd Mar 2024
Catalogue No: V8319
Label: Naive
Length: 78 minutes

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Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940

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Herbert Schuch (soloist), Gülru Ensari (soloist)

Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen: IV. Amen du Désir

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Herbert Schuch (soloist), Gülru Ensari (soloist)

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Schumann in E-Flat Major, Op. 23

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Herbert Schuch (soloist), Gülru Ensari (soloist)

Thema. Leise und innig

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Variation I. L'istesso tempo - Andante molto moderato

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Variation II

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Variation III

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Variation IV

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Variation V. Poco più animato

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Variation VI. Allegro non troppo

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Variation VII. Con moto - L'istesso tempo

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Variation VIII. Poco più vivo

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Variation IX

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Variation X. Molto moderato, alla marcia

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Excerpt, Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos

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Herbert Schuch (soloist), Gülru Ensari (soloist)

V. Amen des Anges, des Saints, du chant des oiseaux

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I. Amen de la Création

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Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 134 (piano 4 Hands)

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Herbert Schuch (soloist), Gülru Ensari (soloist)

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Humans’ hope lies in art - the music of Schubert or Beethoven in particular, which gives us some idea of what worlds can still exist. What words can we use to make these works of art tangible? Not explainable, but tangible.

With this album, Turkish-born pianist Gülru Ensari and Romanian-born Herbert Schuch want to provide a space for experience, a place where they can carefully and tentatively approach the subject of eternity.

The connection between Messiaen and Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms? Nothing more or less than a perceived truth. An involuntary connection of lines that are already there, but are drawn into infinity and meet somewhere, like the parallel rails of a dead-straight track that stretches into infinity.

Ten years after his captivating recital, ‘Invocation’, the excellent German pianist, Herbert Schuch, born in 1979 in Romania, comes back to naïve. It is here, with his duo partner and wife, Gülru Ensari, that he presents his new album, ‘Eternity’.

As they did in their past collaborations with the SWR (‘Go East!’ in 2017, ‘Dialogues’ in 2018 and ‘in Search’ in 2022), they mix, within one programme, works for four hands and two pianos.

One of the Schubert’s late masterworks, the Fantasia in F minor, pairs here with the Variations on a theme by Schumann that Brahms composed on a theme that Schumann wrote in 1854. Three extracts from Messiaen’s monumental cycle Visions de l’Amen, composed in 1943 for two pianos, act as grandiose and contemplative interludes, and also as an introduction to the Große Fugue by Beethoven.

For Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch, each of these three works from the Romantic era connects with the divine part of Messiaen’s pieces.

In pushing back the limit of artistic creation, these four uncontested geniuses - Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Messiaen - expressed themselves outside of their times, creating bridges with worlds they would not have known, always expanding, in a never-ending quest for eternity.

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