Musik fur 20 Finger

Vivienne and Dirk Keilhack - Musik fur 20 Finger

LP released in 1977

Info from the liner notes roughly translated from German to English using a free translation website:

The existing work selection offers a cut out of the literature for piano to four hands of our century, beginning with Regers Burlesken from the year 1901 and ending with Werner Heiders "Locomobile" out of the year 1977.
The funf works show a development line of the music of the 20th Jahrrhunderts of the Spatromantik uber the musical impressionism and the Klassizismus to the vanguard after 1945. You are a testimony fur the pluralism of the styles in the past 75 years. All works received here are knew become real 20-Finger-Musik, i.e. it. only by 4 hands with 20 fingers bewaltigt. A preparation fur a player became essential musical aspects beruhren and ware unthinkable. You spiegelin the much wrinkly Moglichkeiten vierhandiger set manners impressively against. (Dirk Keilhack)

About Vivienne und Dirk Keilhack

The pianist Dirk wedge hoe born in Nurnberg encountered its partner coming out of Cardiff/Wales in the study at the university fur music in Munchen. Both wetted here the same musical training in Maria country Hindemith and Rudolf Hindemith. Further teachers were Otto A Graef, Illona Kabos and Hugo Steurer. After the study entschiossen it itself when duo to appear. They constructed themselves in the following years a coarse repertoire on that at present alone in the field of the vierhandigen piano music approximately 80 works of the before classical period to the vanguard umfabt. Since 1972 have played Vivienne and Dirk wedge hoe with coarse Erfoig program fur piano to four hands and fur of 2 pianos as well as as a soloist in orchestra concerts in Germany, France, England, Holland and Sweden. Fur radio and television received erganzten the concert active-ness. A special concern of both pianist is, the extensive and precious literature fur a piano to four hands of the past and Vernachlassigung to entreiben. Zehlreiche zeitgenossische composers wrote fur the duo composition of this work species.


Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Sechs Burlesken op. 58 {11:15}
composed by Max Reger (1901)

2. Six epigraphes antiques {13:22}
composed by Claude Debussy (1914/1915)

Side B

1. Sonate {13:04}
composed by Paul Hindemith (1938)

2. Capriccio {6:07}
composed by Richard Rodney Bennett (1968)

3. Locomobile {5:06}
composed by Werner Heider (1977)

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