Music by Johannes Brahms for four hands would be nothing out of the ordinary as a recital programme given by the renowned Silver Garburg piano duo - but a concert featuring piano four hands with orchestra? The versatile Austrian composer and arranger Richard DÃ¼nser has arranged Brahms's Piano Quartet op. 25 and dedicated the resultant work to his friends of many years Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg. This is a very special piece of music with an exciting genesis. True, there is already a version of the Piano Quartet op. 25 for orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms composed a four-handed version himself, but not in the form of a piano concerto. So it was a special challenge for arranger Richard DÃ¼nser to prepare the work in a completely new and unfamiliar scoring, drawing on both the earlier versions in the process. "This is all absolutely nothing like a scientific or philological exercise; ultimately, I went to work on the original as if it was my own, and I had the courage to do things that a mere arranger would never dare do," says Richard DÃ¼nser himself of his piece. "It was a stroke of luck at this premiere recording that I could be present and interact with the Silver Garburg Piano Duo and the Vienna Symphony, all of whom are perfectly at home with music in the Classical-Romantic tradition and with my own music, so as to exchange concepts and ideas and feed the sum of this interaction into the recording."

Tracklist:

Konzert fÃ¼r Klavier zu Vier HÃ¤nden und Streichorchester G-Moll~Allegro
Konzert fÃ¼r Klavier zu Vier HÃ¤nden und Streichorchester G-Moll~Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo
Konzert fÃ¼r Klavier zu Vier HÃ¤nden und Streichorchester G-Moll~Andante con moto
Konzert fÃ¼r Klavier zu Vier HÃ¤nden und Streichorchester G-Moll~Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Variationen Ã¼ber ein Thema von Joseph Haydn fÃ¼r Zwei Pianoforte B-Dur, Op. 56B

UPC: 885470012636
Label: Berlin Classics
Release Date: 2.5.21
Format: CD

Brahms / Silver-Garburg Piano Duo / Krumpock - Piano Concerto After 25 (CD)