Beethoven's multi-hand piano music is one of the least investigated and most infrequently revived aspects of his output. The discovery in 2005 of the manuscript of the four-hand version of the Grosse Fuge may help raise the profile of this genre as it relates to Beethoven, but that which militates against it is pretty ominous. So many of these pieces are early, and not fully representative of his mature style, and the remainder consists mostly of arrangements of works better known in other forms. On Praga's Ludwig van ...
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Beethoven's multi-hand piano music is one of the least investigated and most infrequently revived aspects of his output. The discovery in 2005 of the manuscript of the four-hand version of the Grosse Fuge may help raise the profile of this genre as it relates to Beethoven, but that which militates against it is pretty ominous. So many of these pieces are early, and not fully representative of his mature style, and the remainder consists mostly of arrangements of works better known in other forms. On Praga's Ludwig van Beethoven: Works for Piano Duet -- Symphony No. 7, the estimable Prague Piano Duo sets these considerations aside in order to explore this seldom-visited corner of Beethoven's vast worklist.The performances, all of them, are stellar, and Praga's recording is amazingly lifelike and direct. The Sonata, Op. 6, and the two sets of Variations all date from the 1790s and belong stylistically to that decade; on the surface, at least, these pieces resemble Mozart's music so strongly that one...
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