Concerti III: Francis Poulenc, Colin McPhee, John Adams

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This splendid disc offers three works which directly or indirectly owe something to Balinese gamelan…[and] the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo perform with great spirit and charisma alongside the Deutsches... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Mar 2017
Catalogue No: NEOS21703
Label: Neos
Length: 70 minutes

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Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra

Work length19:29

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GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Brad Lubman

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length8:05

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II. Larghetto

Track length5:28

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III. Finale

Track length5:56

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McPhee, C: Tabuh-Tabuhan

Work length18:57

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GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Brad Lubman

I. Ostinatos

Track length7:33

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II. Nocturne

Track length5:37

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III. Finale

Track length5:47

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Adams, J: Grand Pianola Music

Work length32:29

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Trio Mediæval, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Brad Lubman

Pt. 1, —

Track length24:14

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Pt. 2, On the Dominant Divide

Track length8:15

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Three completely different composers – but three works with a great deal in common: Gamelan, Minimal, Parody. Our outstanding GrauSchumacher Piano Duo keeps creating surprising but logical ideas, realizing these with fantastic pianistic virtuosity.

When American composers bade farewell during the 1960s to the cerebral exercises of the European avant-garde substantiated by historical-philosophical considerations, proclaiming the cult of a new simplicity, they also did this with reference to African drumming rituals, Indonesian gamelan music, pop-art and pop-music. They called the result “minimal music”, whose most important characteristic, as with the gamelan, was repetitive patterns above a steady beat; these are transported into other musical aggregate states by means of gradually increasing (at first almost unnoticeable) disturbances, irregularities and phase shifts. Together with the re-enthronement of the major and minor keys, these procedures frequently created psychedelic effects – by no means unintentionally.

Adams has provided a particularly vivid report on the stimuli that led him to compose his Grand Pianola Music: he dreamt that he was driving on Interstate Highway 5 when he was approached from behind by two black stretch-limousines; when they passed him, they were transformed into the world’s longest Steinway pianos and then fired salvos of B-flat major and E-flat major arpeggios at 90 miles per hour. Another important stimulus was the recollection of having walked through the halls of the San Francisco Conservatory and heard the sonic flood of twenty or more pianos “playing Chopin, the Emperor Concerto, Hanon, Rachmaninoff, the Maple Leaf Rag, and much more.”

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September 2017

This splendid disc offers three works which directly or indirectly owe something to Balinese gamelan…[and] the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo perform with great spirit and charisma alongside the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, here on sparkling form

June 2017

The ingenious conception of this collection is undeniable, and those keen to hear these works outside of their usual recorded context need not hesitate

Concerti III: Francis Poulenc, Colin McPhee, John Adams

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