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Bartok, Brahms / Murray Perahia, Sir Georg Solti


Release Date: 10/25/1990 
Label:  Cbs Masterworks Catalog #: 42625   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Johannes Brahms,  Béla Bartók
Performer:  Murray Perahia,  Sir Georg Solti,  David Corkhill,  Evelyn Glennie
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 0 Hours 47 Mins. 

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Notes and Editorial Reviews

"...Murray Perahia [plays] with an authority which has few peers. Solti joins him for a powerful account of the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion." -- BBC Music Magazine "...Murray Perahia [plays] with an authority which has few peers. Solti joins him for a powerful account of the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion." -- BBC Music Magazine Read less

Works on This Recording

1. Variations for 2 Pianos on a theme by Haydn, Op. 56b "St Anthony" by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  Murray Perahia (Piano), Sir Georg Solti (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1873; Austria 
2. Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz 110 by Béla Bartók
Performer:  David Corkhill (Percussion), Murray Perahia (Piano), Sir Georg Solti (Piano),
Evelyn Glennie (Percussion)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1937; Budapest, Hungary 

Sound Samples

I. Assai lento
II. Lento, ma non troppo
III. Allegro non troppo
Thema. Chorale St. Antoni
Variation 1. Andante con moto
Variation 2. Vivace
Variation 3. Con moto
Variation 4. Andante
Variation 5. Poco presto
Variation 6. Vivace
Variation 7. Grazioso
Variation 8. Poco presto
Finale. Andante

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