Dana Ciocarlie, Christiane Baume-Sanglard – Grieg, Huber, Bruch, Winkelman: Invitation à la Danse (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Dana Ciocarlie, Christiane Baume-Sanglard – Grieg, Huber, Bruch, Winkelman: Invitation à la Danse (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:39 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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Since their first encounter in 2007 during the Swiss festival Piano à Saint-Ursanne, Christiane Baume-Sanglard and Dana Ciocarlie have started working together and collaborating as a Four-Hands Piano Duo. The female duo has since played in numerous concerts and festivals all over Europe. Through their friendship, their contrasting personalities make for a vibrant mixture of energy, poetry and musical expressiveness.

Multiplication of hands and sharing space in front of a unique keyboard: the art of Four-Hands Piano is exacting. This style of piano playing requires extremely careful listening between the partners, as well as a single gestural and musical impulse. Dinstinctness of the different parts, research of sound quality, attention to complementarity and overall mastery are as many technical difficulties that need to be overcome. Beyond that, two hearts and two minds need to merge into a single musical line so that the work being interpreted may find its true meaning. Twenty fingers on a keyboard, two pairs of eyes on a single score, but only one soul at the service of the composers.

Tracklist:

Edvard Grieg
Danses norvégiennes, Op. 35
1 1. Allegro marcato 5:54
2 2. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso 2:19
3 3. Allegretto moderato alla marcia 2:44
4 4. Allegretto molto 5:24

Hans Huber
Du Lac de Lucerne, Dix Danses, Op. 47
5 1. Moderato 2:22
6 2. Kräftig 0:48
7 3. Anmutig bewegt 1:17
8 4. Rasch 2:26
9 5. Flott 1:12
10 6. Sehr zart 1:22
11 7. Nicht zu schnell 0:47
12 8. Anmutig 0:48
13 9. Nicht zu schnell 1:53
14 10. Feurig 0:59

Helena Winkelman
Trois danses suisses
15 1. Marche des maraudeurs 3:05
16 2. Valse hypnotique 5:41
17 3. Polka psychédélique 2:50

Max Bruch
Danses suédoises, Op. 63
18 1. Einleitung. Langsam. Sehr mässig 1:52
19 2. Ruhig bewegt 1:06
20 3. Frisch, nicht zu schnell 1:08
21 4. Langsam, nicht schleppend 1:16
22 5. Ziemlich schnell 1:14
23 6. Langsam, mit Ausdruck 2:03
24 7. Lebhaft 0:55
25 8. Sehr mässig 1:28
26 9. Lebhaft 0:55
27 10. Frisch, nicht zu schnell 0:55
28 11. Sehr mässig 1:31
29 12. Langsam, nicht schleppend 1:56
30 13. Sehr mässig 0:35
31 14. Gehend, ruhig bewegt 1:48
32 15. Sehr mässig 0:55

Edvard Grieg
Valses-Caprices, Op. 37
33 1. Valse-Caprice No. 1 en do dièse mineur 4:55
34 2. Valse-Caprice No. 2 en mi mineur 3:28