Works for Piano Four-Hands (1999)

David Kopp and Rodney Lister are both professors of composition and theory at Boston University. In 1997 and 1998, when the New World release Works for Piano Four-Hands was recorded at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Kopp and Lister were teaching at separate institutions yet maintaining a piano duo. Serendipitously, two of the composers heard here are considered members of the so-called "Boston School": Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger. Virgil Thomson, of course, belongs to his own unique category as composer ... Read More

David Kopp and Rodney Lister are both professors of composition and theory at Boston University. In 1997 and 1998, when the New World release Works for Piano Four-Hands was recorded at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Kopp and Lister were teaching at separate institutions yet maintaining a piano duo. Serendipitously, two of the composers heard here are considered members of the so-called "Boston School": Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger. Virgil Thomson, of course, belongs to his own unique category as composer and as one of Nadia Boulanger's earliest American students, but shares with Berger the distinction of a career in music criticism in addition to composition. The main event here is Harold Shapero's Piano Sonata for Four-Hands (1941), premiered in 1945 by the composer and the young Leonard Bernstein and later recorded on a mono LP by Shapero and Leo Smit. This is one of the finest and most distinctively American of all four-hand piano works and has long deserved a digital recording;... Read Less

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