Rimsky-korsakov: For Piano Duo

Goldstone; Clemmow

Composed by: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov arranged his most famous work, Scheherazade, and the little jolly Neapolitan Song, op. 63, for piano four hands. + His wife Nadezhda Purgold, herself an accomplished pianist and composer, made the four-hand arrangement of the middle-eastern inspired symphonic suite Antar; this is its first recording. + The transcription of Scheherazade is highly complex but enormously effective and rewarding. + There is scope for more spontaneity and flexibility than is possible with a large orchestra, and the timbres are remarkably pungent. + Two decades before Scheherazade, he’d turned to the tale of Antar at the suggestion of Balakirev and Mussorgsky. + On this subject he planned to compose a symphony or symphonic poem in four movements. + It would go through three versions before being published as Antar, Symphonic Suite (2nd Symphony), op. 9. + The celebrated piano duo of Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (“a dazzling husband and wife team” – Gramophone), whose nearly thirty recordings include a ground-breaking 7CD cycle of the complete original piano duets of Schubert, add to their growing discography.

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