Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: & other works for two pianos four hands

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The two-piano transcription is arguably as exhilarating as the full orchestration [of The Rite], and Andsnes and Hamelin offer a reading that is in turns thrilling, unsettling and beautiful…... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2018
Catalogue No: CDA68189
Label: Hyperion
Length: 64 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

February 2018

Record of the Month
Record Review

10th February 2018

Recording of the Week
Gramophone Awards

2018

Finalist - Instrumental
Presto Recordings of the Year

Winner 2018
Grammy Awards

61st Awards (2019)

Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year

2018

Nominated - Instrumental

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Work length33:13

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Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Part 1 No 1. The Kiss of the Earth: Introduction –

Track length3:14

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Part 1 No 2. Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls) –

Track length3:02

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Part 1 No 3. Game of Abduction –

Track length1:16

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Part 1 No 4. Spring Rounds –

Track length3:46

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Part 1 No 5. Game of the Two Rival Tribes –

Track length1:42

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Part 1 No 6. Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One

Track length0:38

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Part 1 No 7. The Kiss of the Earth –

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Part 1 No 8. Dancing Out of the Earth

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Part 2 No 1. The Great Sacrifice: Introduction –

Track length4:53

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Part 2 No 2. Mystic Circle of the Young Girls –

Track length3:03

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Part 2 No 3. Glorification of the Chosen One –

Track length1:24

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Part 2 No 4. Evocation of the Ancestors –

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Part 2 No 5. Ritual Action of the Ancestors –

Track length3:31

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Part 2 No 6. Sacrificial Dance

Track length4:20

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Stravinsky: Concerto for 2 Pianos

Work length21:32

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Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

I. Con moto

Track length6:26

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II. Notturno: Adagietto

Track length5:37

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III. Quattro variazioni

Track length4:30

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IV. Preludio e fuga

Track length4:59

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Stravinsky: Madrid

Work length2:56

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Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Stravinsky: Tango

Work length3:12

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Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Stravinsky: Circus Polka

Work length3:54

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Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

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Shortly before its notorious Paris ballet premiere in 1913, this was essentially how The Rite of Spring first saw the light of day: Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin recapture the heady, visceral thrill which must have been in the air when Stravinsky sat down at the piano with Debussy to create this landmark of modernism.

Leif Ove Andsnes appears courtesy of Sony Classical International.

Reviews

April 2018

The two-piano transcription is arguably as exhilarating as the full orchestration [of The Rite], and Andsnes and Hamelin offer a reading that is in turns thrilling, unsettling and beautiful… Andsnes and Hamelin are masters of modernism; they coax a prism of colours from the instruments, all of which are captured in detail via the superior sound recording.

9th February 2018

Andsnes and Hamelin also play the Concerto for Two Pianos, a substantial Stravinsky score and one well worth getting to know. Here is every side of Stravinsky’s persona, not just the cool neo-classicism of the period when he wrote it, but flashes of the fantasy of The Firebird and the violence of The Rite of Spring. Together with three colourful, short Stravinsky arrangements the programme adds up to a brilliant album.

February 2018

Hamelin and Andsnes are irresistibly clear and energetic...For sheer articulacy, synchronised gymnastics, flawless balance, range of colour and flinty attack, or any other criterion you care to reach for, this is breathtaking pianism...An immensely collectable album: a strong candidate for Disc of the Year, never mind of the Month.

February 2018

Soulima Stravinsky’s two-piano take on Madrid, originally written for the pianola, is dispatched with rhythmic flair and a sure sense of style. It’s an alluring little number that would make a perfect encore. This recording is well up to the high standards we’ve come to expect from Hyperion.

28th January 2018

These superb virtuosos coalesce in triumph on triumph of phrasing and crisp articulation. Their two-piano reading of The Rite of Spring adds to the inescapable savage exhilaration of the ballet a note-by-note precision and an almost neoclassical sense of the objectivity of the construction...a disc of scintillating pleasures.

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

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