Performing on early 19th-century pianos from the Frederick Historic Piano Collection, competition prizewinners Dmitry Rachmanov, a Juilliard graduate, and Cullan Bryant, a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, explore the interrelationships between the keyboard music of Beethoven and his principal teachers in this fascinating double-album of rarities for piano four-hands, culminating in a revelatory account of the Great Fugue in Beethoven's own keyboard arrangement. The distinctive sonorities of these highly esteemed period instruments transport the listener back to the time when Beethoven, his teachers or his own pupils, may have performed this music themselves for the first time.

Tracklist:

I. Allegro Molto
II. Rondo: Moderato
No.
Der Vogelfanger Bin Ich Ja
No.
Bei Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen
No.
Soll Ich Dich, Teurer, Nicht Mehr Seh'n
No.
Das Klinget So Herrlich
No.
Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen
No.
Klinget, Glockchen, Klinget
8 Variations on a Theme By Count Waldstein in C Major, Woo 67 1
Prelude and Fugue for Piano 4-Hands in B Flat Major 1
No. 1 in C Major 1
No. 2 in E Flat Major 1
No. 3 in D Major 1
6 Variations on Ich Denke Dein in D Major, Woo 74 1
Theme and Variations 1
Tempo Di Menuet 1
Grosse Fuge in B Flat Major, Op. 134

UPC: 747313251971
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 3.29.11
Format: CD

L.V. Beethoven - Beethoven & His Teachers: Music for Piano (CD)