Name: Beethoven: Symphonies, Arranged for Piano Duo, Vol. 3
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I was immediately struck by the orchestral quality of their sound, its depth, volume and colour. That’s a benefit of having four hands at one piano, rather than two, and surely testament to... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 21st Apr 2023
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0666
Label: Somm
Length: 79 minutes

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Work length37:12

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Ben Schoeman (piano), Tessa Uys (piano)

I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

Track length13:45

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II. Larghetto

Track length13:06

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III. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length3:33

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length6:48

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Work length41:53

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Ben Schoeman (piano), Tessa Uys (piano)

I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace

Track length15:02

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II. Allegretto

Track length9:04

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III. Presto

Track length9:00

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IV. Allegro con brio

Track length8:47

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Interview, Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman on Beethoven and Scharwenka

27th July 2021

The piano duo talk about their new series of recordings of Beethoven's symphonies transcribed by Scharwenka, and discuss the unique musical changes that took place over Scharwenka's own lifetime.

SOMM Recordings announces Volume 3 of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo’s ground-breaking series exploring Franz Xaver Scharwenka’s arrangements of Beethoven Symphonies. A composer of no mean stature in his own right, Scharwenka’s transcriptions were once widely admired, his treatments of Beethoven’s symphonies a high-watermark of the genre. Volume 3 couples perhaps the least known of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, No.2 in D major, and the extraordinary scale and innovation of No.7 in A major. As Robert Matthew-Walker points out in his informative booklet notes, perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the Second Symphony, composed during a period of crippling self-doubt and encroaching deafness, is that it is “so positive and full of life, tingling with vitality and energy”. Of the Seventh Symphony, he writes, “Beethoven poses further challenges to his interpreters – technical as well as musical… Nothing like this had ever been expressed in music before.” Born in Cape Town and a Royal Academy of Music Associate, Tessa Uys has an impressive reputation as a concert and broadcasting performer, appearing at major venues around the world. Her multi-prize-winning South African compatriot Ben Schoeman has a busy international profile and is currently a senior lecturer in piano and musicology at the University of Pretoria. First playing as a London-based Duo in 2010, their admired explorations of Scharwenka’s four-hand Beethoven transcriptions on the concert platform began in 2015.

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July 2023

I was immediately struck by the orchestral quality of their sound, its depth, volume and colour. That’s a benefit of having four hands at one piano, rather than two, and surely testament to Scharwenka’s skill.

May 2023

These skilled, imaginative arrangements are big-boned affairs… Uys and Schoeman handle content and texture impeccably and with empathic understanding. Under their hands (…) the music grows and climaxes, taut yet with time to reflect.

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Beethoven: Symphonies, Arranged for Piano Duo, Vol. 3

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