Brahms by Arrangement Vol. 2

BBC Symphony Orchestra;
Mann, Paul

TOCC 0450

Composers who orchestrate the music of earlier colleagues often serve them best when they add something of themselves to the work in hand. These three orchestrations by the English composer Robin Holloway (b. 1943) demonstrate his profound understanding of and affection for two of the most important Romantic composers – and his re-imagining of Brahms’ Sonata for Two Pianos (which Brahms himself recast as his Piano Quintet) as a symphony gives one of the greatest of all compositions a wild and thrilling energy, making it also a masterpiece of our own age.

Works:

•Brahms: Symphonie op. 34 nach der Sonate für 2 Klaviere op. 34a
•Brahms: Schumann-Variationen op. 23 für 2 Klaviere
•Robert Schumann: Con moto egual'e dolce aus "6 Kanonische Etüden" op. 56 (arrangiert für 2 Klaviere fon Claude Debussy)

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Toccata Classics

04-05-2023

5060113444509