Shostakovich: Complete Music for Piano Duo and Piano Duet Volume 1: Includes First Recordings

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Vicky Yannoula and Jakob Fichert are clearly devoting themselves to a not always thankful task. Their playing is on the whole well prepared and musical, and they succeed to a large extent in... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

Release Date: 19th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: TOCC0034
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 74 minutes

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70

Work length24:52

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

I. Allegro (Version for piano for 4 hands)

Track length5:35

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II. Moderato (Version for piano for 4 hands)

Track length7:11

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III. Presto - (Version for piano for 4 hands)

Track length2:57

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IV. Largo - (Version for piano for 4 hands)

Track length2:37

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V. Allegretto (Version for piano for 4 hands)

Track length6:32

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Shostakovich: Song of the Great Rivers, Op. 95

Work length1:50

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

Waltz (version for piano 4 hands) [Version for piano 4 hands]

Track length1:50

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Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 2 (1951)

Work length1:36

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

III. Polka (version for piano 4 hands) [Version for piano 4 hands]

Track length1:36

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Shostakovich: Priklyucheniya Korzinkinoy (the Adventures of Korzinkina), Op. 59

Work length2:51

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

The Adventures of Korzinkina, Op. 59: III. The Chase

Track length2:51

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Shostakovich: Suite for two pianos in F sharp major, Op. 6

Work length29:36

$8.00

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

I. Prelude. Andantino

Track length5:09

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II. Danse fantastique

Track length3:33

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III. Nocturne. Andante

Track length10:29

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IV. Finale. Allegro

Track length10:25

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Shostakovich: Tarantella

Work length1:32

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

Shostakovich: Vesyolïy marsh (Merry March)

Work length2:00

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

Merry March

Track length2:00

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Shostakovich: Concertino for two pianos in A minor, Op. 94

Work length10:19

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Vicky Yannoula, Jakob Fichert

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The piano was always at the centre of Shostakovich’s musical universe. He began to show signs of musical talent as a child, starting his first piano lessons with his mother, and immediately after leaving the Conservatoire he was ranked as a promising concert pianist.

The piano remained important to Shostakovich throughout his career: he usually played the piano parts of his chamber works and songs at their first performances, and wrote some of his most important works for the instrument, including the two concertos, the two sonatas, and the monumental set of 24 Preludes and Fugues.

Much of Shostakovich’s orchestral music was first heard in versions he prepared for piano four hands or two pianos: he routinely arranged his own symphonies to facilitate performance to friends in advance of their orchestral premieres, and for personal pleasure afterwards. This common practice was also convenient for letting Communist Party apparatchiks decide whether the work was ideologically worthy of performance.

Most of these transcriptions have languished unheard since those early performances. This series uncovers all the transcriptions prepared by Shostakovich himself, coupling them with all his original music for piano duo and duet, and contains his earliest surviving two-piano work (Suite in F sharp minor, Op. 6, composed in Petrograd in March 1922 in memory of his father, who had just died) as well as dances from several of his film scores (including the little-heard Korzinkina’s Adventures, Op. 59).

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February 2012

Vicky Yannoula and Jakob Fichert are clearly devoting themselves to a not always thankful task. Their playing is on the whole well prepared and musical, and they succeed to a large extent in disguising the sheer physical awkwardness of the medium.

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