Chopin for Piano Duo

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The recording is very clear. The rendition of the concerto is definitely very stimulating. As for the rest, the bravura pieces fare best, while the more lyrical ones are somewhat “bravurized”. — MusicWeb International, January 2013 More…

Release Date: 26th Jan 2009
Catalogue No: DDA25070
Label: Divine Art
Length: 72 minutes

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Work length31:52

$7.00

$9.05

Goldstone and Clemmow

I. Maestoso

Track length14:17

$3.00

$3.85

II. Larghetto

Track length8:31

$2.00

$2.60

III. Allegretto vivace

Track length9:04

$2.00

$2.60

Chopin: Rondo in C major, Op. 73

Work length9:29

$2.00

$2.60

Goldstone and Clemmow

Chopin: Variations on Rossini's 'Non piu mesta' in E major

Work length3:09

$1.00

$1.30

Goldstone and Clemmow

Variations on Non piu mesta from Rossini's La Cenerentola (arr. A. Goldstone)

Track length3:09

$1.00

$1.30

Schütt: Valse-Paraphrase d'apres Chopin, Op. 58, No. 1

Work length7:11

$2.00

$2.60

Goldstone and Clemmow

Chopin: Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz'

Work length2:31

$1.00

$1.30

Goldstone and Clemmow

Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2

Work length4:11

$1.00

$1.30

Goldstone and Clemmow

Brahms: 5 Studies for the Piano, Anh. Ia / 1: No. 1. Study after Chopin (arr. of Etude No. 14 in F minor, Op. 25, No. 2) (arr. A. Goldstone)

Work length2:26

$1.00

$1.30

Goldstone and Clemmow

Etude nach (arr. A. Goldstone)

Track length2:26

$1.00

$1.30

Chopin: Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Theme of Moore

Work length8:16

$2.00

$2.60

Goldstone and Clemmow

Goldstone: Revolutionary Raindrop Rag

Work length3:10

$1.00

$1.30

Goldstone and Clemmow

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Presented here is a selection of Chopin compositions arranged for two pianos or piano duet, including the Second Piano Concerto in a version for two pianos by Chopin himself and his pupil Carl Mikuli – a world première recording.

In all there are six such premières on this CD.

With thirty-five CDs and a busy concert schedule stretching back almost a quarter century, the British piano duo Goldstone and Clemmow is firmly established as a leading force. Described by Gramophone as ‘a dazzling husband and wife team’, by International Record Review as ‘a British institution in the best sense of the word’, and by The Herald, Glasgow, as ‘the UK’s pre-eminent twopiano team’, internationally known artists Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow formed their duo in 1984 and married in 1989.

Their extremely diverse activities in two-piano and piano-duet recitals and double concertos, taking in major festivals, have sent them all over the British Isles as well as to Europe, the Middle East and several times to the U.S.A., where they have received standing ovations and such press accolades as ‘revelations such as this are rare in the concert hall these days’ (Charleston Post and Courier). In their refreshingly presented concerts they mix famous masterpieces and fascinating rarities, which they frequently unearth themselves, into absorbing and hugely entertaining programmes; their numerous B.B.C. broadcasts have often included first hearings of unjustly neglected works, and their equally enterprising and acclaimed commercial recordings include many world premières.

Having presented the complete duets of Mozart for the bicentenary, they decided to accept the much greater challenge of performing the vast quantity of music written by Schubert specifically for four hands at one piano. This they have repeated several times in mammoth seven-concert cycles, probably a world first in their completeness (including works not found in the collected edition) and original recital format. The Musical Times wrote of this venture: ‘The Goldstone/Clemmow performances invited one superlative after another.’ The complete cycle (as a rare bonus including as encores Schumann’s eight Schubert-inspired Polonaises) was recorded on seven CDs, ‘haunted with the spirit of Schubert’ – Luister, The Netherlands.

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January 2013

The recording is very clear. The rendition of the concerto is definitely very stimulating. As for the rest, the bravura pieces fare best, while the more lyrical ones are somewhat “bravurized”.

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