Frank Zappa wasn't the only composer whose life was changed by a brief encounter with Edgar Varèse; Morton Feldman ran into Varèse one day on the street and, in the course of a quick exchange, Varèse offered advice that stayed with Feldman until the end of his days. Nevertheless, one wouldn't naturally come upon the notion to program the two together as the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo has on this Wergo disc devoted to multiple piano works of both composers, but as an album and a purely musical experience this is a stunning ...
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Frank Zappa wasn't the only composer whose life was changed by a brief encounter with Edgar Varèse; Morton Feldman ran into Varèse one day on the street and, in the course of a quick exchange, Varèse offered advice that stayed with Feldman until the end of his days. Nevertheless, one wouldn't naturally come upon the notion to program the two together as the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo has on this Wergo disc devoted to multiple piano works of both composers, but as an album and a purely musical experience this is a stunning success. The Varèse work is his two pianos, eight-hand reduction of his notorious orchestra work Amèriques as scored out in 1921; Varèse undertook an extensive revamping of this score in 1927, but never completed the work. In her realization of Amèriques, Helena Bugallo of the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo has simply sought to put the score back into the finished state at which it arrived in 1921 before Varèse's additional tinkering took place, sort of like resetting a computer back to...
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Add this copy of Ameriques / Piece for Four Pianos-Five Pianos to cart. $30.55, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Wergo Germany.
