Peter Hill | Benjamin Frith - Russian Works for Piano Four Hands - Import CD

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Peter Hill | Benjamin Frith

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Piano Duo of Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith! Main program is Petrushka! All-Russian program! Peter Hill, a world-renowned authority on Messiaen studies, whose performances and interpretations of the J.S. Bach series (French Suites and Mean Clavier Works Volumes 1 & 2) at the Delphian have won accolades not only in Europe but also here in Japan. With Benjamin Frith, a talented British pianist with whom Hill and Frith have been working as a duo for many years, Hill and Frith recorded the "Piano Four Hands" works of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky. Hill and Frith's outstanding combination, sparkling tone, and snappy rhythms are the perfect complement to Rachmaninoff's "Six Pieces," a staple for four hands, selections from Tchaikovsky's "50 Russian Folk Songs," two melodies later used in "Firebird" and "Petrouchka," and Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" for four hands. Petrushka," which unfolds colorfully and dynamically on the piano keyboard. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.Six morceaux, Op. 11: 1. Barcarolle
2.Six morceaux, Op. 11: 2. Scherzo
3.Six morceaux, Op. 11: 3. Russian Theme
4.Six morceaux, Op. 11: 4. Valse
5.Six morceaux, Op. 11: 5. Romance
6.Six morceaux, Op. 11: 6. Slava
7.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Do not overflow, my quiet Danube
8.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Are you my plait, my scarf?
9.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Is it really you, dove-grey rooster?
10.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: But we have rented the land
11.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Vanya was sitting
12.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: I shall approach and come up to your town
13.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Do not sing, do not sing, O little nightingale
14.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Oh, meadow-duck of mine
15.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: By the gates, the gates
16.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Remember, remember, my dear
17.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: By the gate the pine tree rocks
18.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Under the green apple tree
19.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Spin, O my spinner
20.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: As down the hill, down the mountain
21.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Snowball tree with raspberries
22.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: The loach wriggles on the water
23.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Yesterday evening I was young at the feast
24.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Oh, my heart, my poor thing
25.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: In the sea the duck was swimming
26.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Merry Katenka
27.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: As across the meadow, across the little meadow
28.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Beyond the yard the little meadow is green
29.Fifty Russian Folk Songs: Yo, heave ho (Song of the Volga Boatmen)
30.Petrushka: First Scene: The Shrovetide Fair
31.Petrushka: The Magic Trick
32.Petrushka: Russian Dance
33.Petrushka: Second Scene: Petrushka's Cell
34.Petrushka: Third Scene: The Moor's Cell
35.Petrushka: Dance of the Ballerina

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