Stravinsky

Music for Four Hands

Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith

Naxos 8.553871

Reviews

  • Beautifully phrased, Frith and Hill’s playing is magnetic in its concentration and sensitivity. Daily Telegraph
  • … sensitive aristocratic playing, the textures never cluttered, the chording beautifully weighted … There are fireworks aplenty where required, but Hill and Frith bring elegance, warmth and fantasy to both the neoclassical pieces. But it’s the Rite that is the triumph. Ever lucid, marvellously poetic in its evocative moments, the fast movements dynamically alive, Hill and Frith present this version, entirely convincingly, as nothing less than great piano music. Hi Fi News
  • The tonal quality of Frith’s and Hill’s pianism is more alluring than that of Ashkenazy and Gavrilov, the combination of zest and seriousness more apt than the Labèques’ rather extrovert manner, and the Naxos recording decisively preferable to the Kontarsky disc … Fanfare

Track listing

  • Sonata for Two Pianos
  • 1 Moderato
  • 2 Theme with Variations
  • 3 Variation 1
  • 4 Variation 2
  • 5 Variation 3
  • 6 Variation 4
  • 7 Allegretto
  • Concerto for Two Pianos
  • 8 Con moto
  • 9 Notturno
  • 10 Quattro variazioni: Variation 1
  • 11 Variation 2
  • 12 Variation 3
  • 13 Variation 4
  • 14 Preludio e Fuga
  • Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (arr. for piano 4 hands)
  • Part I: The Adoration of the Earth
  • 15 Introduction
  • 16 Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls)
  • 17 Ritual of Abduction
  • 18 Spring Rounds
  • 19 Games of the Rival Tribes
  • 20 Procession of the Wise Elder
  • 21 The Sage
  • 22 Dance of the Earth
  • Part II: The Sacrifice
  • 23 Introduction
  • 24 Mystic Circles of the Young Girls
  • 25 Glorification of the Chosen One
  • 26 Evocation of the Ancestors
  • 27 Ritual Action of the Ancestors
  • 28 Sacrificial Dance
  • Total Playing Time: [01:03:36]
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