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Beethoven 9th Symphony Piano Duet Arr. by X Scharwenka (Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman, SOMMCD 0697)
SOMM Recordings release the 6th and final volume of Beethoven Symphonies. This album contains Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Op. 125 (Choral) arranged for piano duet by Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924).
Primo - Tessa Uys
Secondo - Ben Schoeman
somm-recordings.com/artist/tessa-uys-and-ben-schoeman-piano-duo/
www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/the-beauty-of-beethoven-s-symphonies-arranged-for-piano-duet
In July 2015, the Director of the August City Music Festival at St Lawrence Jewry contacted pianist Tessa Uys in distress. The artist due to open the festival at the beginning of August had just withdrawn from the engagement. He was to play the solo Liszt transcription of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. During the conversation, Tessa remembered that somewhere among her music, she had a copy of the nine symphonies by Beethoven, transcribed by Franz Xaver Scharwenka.
Scharwenka was born near Posen, East Prussia, and died in Berlin in 1924. Although he began learning to play when he was three, he did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to Berlin where he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. He travelled widely as a piano virtuoso and scored considerable success in England in both this capacity and that of composer. He was an exceedingly fine pianist, highly praised for his beauty of tone, and was renowned for his brilliant interpretation of the music of Frederic Chopin. In addition, he was an inspiring teacher. He composed symphonies, piano concerti and an opera (performed at the Met, New York), as well as a quantity of instrumental music, including the transcriptions for piano duet for four hands of the nine symphonies by Beethoven.
This was the music Tessa found in her collection which had belonged to her mother, Helga Bassel, a student of Leonid Kreutzer at the Hochschule fϋr Musik in Berlin. Bassel first came across these duets and she played them with her fiancé, a geologist by profession, but also a fine musician. This was in the 1920s, shortly after Scharwenka had retired from the international concert platform and his teaching career in Berlin, and shortly after his death in 1924.
Reverting to London in 2015 … the two pianists (Uys and Schoeman) were able to inform the director that they had located the music of the Beethoven/Scharwenka Symphonies transcribed for piano duo. Uys and Schoeman had met in 2008 at the Royal Over-Seas League in London. Ben was the Gold Medal winner of the ROSL Music Competition in 2009, which Tessa won decades earlier. They were invited to give their first concert together in 2010 and have continued to give recitals together ever since. They joined forces for the 9th Symphony and in a matter of days prepared this massive opus. They performed it in its entirety for the first time at the opening festival concert to a hugely appreciative audience.
Working on this Symphony and subsequently on all nine in this form, has been a journey of exploration and inspiration for Uys and Schoeman. To be able to hear and discover the intricate weaving of all the internal harmonies and melodic lines that one knows are there, but that tend to get submerged in large orchestral ensemble, has indeed been a revelation.
Ever since that performance in 2015, they have performed all nine symphonies, playing them at music societies and festivals.
In an age when CDs, iPods, Spotify and UA-cam were unknown, and live concerts a prerogative of the wealthy, these transcriptions reflected what most people in the 19th Century knew of these works and indeed, of countless other masterpieces.
The nine symphonies transcribed by Scharwenka are part of the piano repertoire which deserve a hearing to be shared by all. The music is no longer in print, but in the hands of two pianists, the genius of Scharwenka's transcriptions together with the power of Beethoven can ensure the legacy lives on.
Primo - Tessa Uys
Secondo - Ben Schoeman
somm-recordings.com/artist/tessa-uys-and-ben-schoeman-piano-duo/
www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/the-beauty-of-beethoven-s-symphonies-arranged-for-piano-duet
In July 2015, the Director of the August City Music Festival at St Lawrence Jewry contacted pianist Tessa Uys in distress. The artist due to open the festival at the beginning of August had just withdrawn from the engagement. He was to play the solo Liszt transcription of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. During the conversation, Tessa remembered that somewhere among her music, she had a copy of the nine symphonies by Beethoven, transcribed by Franz Xaver Scharwenka.
Scharwenka was born near Posen, East Prussia, and died in Berlin in 1924. Although he began learning to play when he was three, he did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to Berlin where he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. He travelled widely as a piano virtuoso and scored considerable success in England in both this capacity and that of composer. He was an exceedingly fine pianist, highly praised for his beauty of tone, and was renowned for his brilliant interpretation of the music of Frederic Chopin. In addition, he was an inspiring teacher. He composed symphonies, piano concerti and an opera (performed at the Met, New York), as well as a quantity of instrumental music, including the transcriptions for piano duet for four hands of the nine symphonies by Beethoven.
This was the music Tessa found in her collection which had belonged to her mother, Helga Bassel, a student of Leonid Kreutzer at the Hochschule fϋr Musik in Berlin. Bassel first came across these duets and she played them with her fiancé, a geologist by profession, but also a fine musician. This was in the 1920s, shortly after Scharwenka had retired from the international concert platform and his teaching career in Berlin, and shortly after his death in 1924.
Reverting to London in 2015 … the two pianists (Uys and Schoeman) were able to inform the director that they had located the music of the Beethoven/Scharwenka Symphonies transcribed for piano duo. Uys and Schoeman had met in 2008 at the Royal Over-Seas League in London. Ben was the Gold Medal winner of the ROSL Music Competition in 2009, which Tessa won decades earlier. They were invited to give their first concert together in 2010 and have continued to give recitals together ever since. They joined forces for the 9th Symphony and in a matter of days prepared this massive opus. They performed it in its entirety for the first time at the opening festival concert to a hugely appreciative audience.
Working on this Symphony and subsequently on all nine in this form, has been a journey of exploration and inspiration for Uys and Schoeman. To be able to hear and discover the intricate weaving of all the internal harmonies and melodic lines that one knows are there, but that tend to get submerged in large orchestral ensemble, has indeed been a revelation.
Ever since that performance in 2015, they have performed all nine symphonies, playing them at music societies and festivals.
In an age when CDs, iPods, Spotify and UA-cam were unknown, and live concerts a prerogative of the wealthy, these transcriptions reflected what most people in the 19th Century knew of these works and indeed, of countless other masterpieces.
The nine symphonies transcribed by Scharwenka are part of the piano repertoire which deserve a hearing to be shared by all. The music is no longer in print, but in the hands of two pianists, the genius of Scharwenka's transcriptions together with the power of Beethoven can ensure the legacy lives on.
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Extract from Beethoven Symphony no. 7 - arr. piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka
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Pianists Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman are recording the 9 Beethoven Symphonies for SOMM Recordings, UK. This extract from the Finale of the 7th Symphony (Allegro con brio) was filmed during a recording session at the Menuhin Hall, Surrey. Producer: Siva Oke Sound recording engineer: Ben Connellan, Giraffe Productions This, the pianists' 3rd volume of six will be released on 21st April 2023 and co...
Ben Schoeman plays Tchaikovsky Concerto no. 1 at the Barbican Hall
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Piotr I. Tchaikovsky - Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23 Ben Schoeman (piano) performs with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Judd, at the Barbican Hall, London.
Ben Schoeman plays Mozart Concerto no. 25 at UNISA International Piano Competition
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WA Mozart - Concerto no. 25 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, K. V. 503 Cadenza (1st movement): Nikita Magaloff Ben Schoeman (1st Prize winner of the 11th UNISA International Piano Competition, sponsored by Vodacom) performs with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, conducted by Arjan Tien, at the UNISA ZK Matthews Great Hall, UNISA, Pretoria. www.benschoeman.com
Ben Schoeman plays Tchaikovsky Concerto no. 1 at UNISA International Piano Competition
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Piotr I. Tchaikovsky - Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23 - Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito - Andantino semplice - Prestissimo - Tempo I - Allegro con fuoco - Molto meno mosso - Allegro vivo Ben Schoeman (1st Prize winner of the 11th UNISA International Piano Competition, sponsored by Vodacom) performs with the Chamber Orchestra of South Afr...
Hendrik Hofmeyr: Sonata for Flute and Piano (2006) played by Dawid Venter and Ben Schoeman
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Flautist Dawid Venter and pianist Ben Schoeman perform the South African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr's Sonata for Flute and Piano (2006) at the Enoch Sontonga Hall of the University of South Africa, Pretoria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Hofmeyr Hailed by the South African press as a world class performer, flautist Dawid Venter enjoys a multifaceted career as orchestral player, soloist and chambe...
CM Widor: Suite for Flute and Piano, Op. 34 played by Dawid Venter and Ben Schoeman
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Flautist Dawid Venter and pianist Ben Schoeman play the Suite for flute and piano, Op. 34 by Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937): Moderato/ Scherzo: Allegro vivace/ Romance: Andantino/ Finale: Vivace Charles-Marie Widor is best remembered as a composer and performer of music for the organ. Like Pierre Sancan and Henri Dutilleux, he was affiliated with the Paris Conservatoire, where he taught organ....
Dutilleux Sonatine for Flute and Piano (1943) played by Dawid Venter and Ben Schoeman
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Flautist Dawid Venter and pianist Ben Schoeman perform the Sonatine for flute and piano (1943) by Henri Dutilleux. This Sonatine is one of a series of four test pieces for the Paris Conservatoire that Dutilleux wrote between 1942 and 1951. They were commissioned by then-director Claude Delvincourt. These pieces were intended both to test the technique of the students and provide them with new s...
Debussy: Ondine (Préludes for Piano, Book 2) played by Ben Schoeman
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Pianist Ben Schoeman plays Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) "Ondine" (from Préludes for Piano, Book 2, 1913) on Rachmaninoff's London Steinway. Recorded by Zachgerard.com. Ben Schoeman is a senior lecturer in piano and musicology at the University of Pretoria, where he received the Laureate Award. He is a Steinway Artist and won several awards, including the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA Voda...
Richard Strauss: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6 (I.) played by Anzél Gerber and Ben Schoeman
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Cellist Anzél Gerber and pianist Ben Schoeman play the first movement (Allegro con brio) from the Sonata in F major for Cello and Piano, Op. 6 by Richard Strauss As a duo, Gerber and Schoeman have performed in many concert halls in Europe, USA and South Africa. They won the Ibla Grand Prize in Italy and also the Global Music Awards in the USA. The eminent South African composer Stefans Grové wr...
Ben Schoeman plays Brahms Paganini Variations Op 35 (Bk 1) at Barbican Hall, London
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Ben Schoeman performs the first book of the Paganini Variations, Op. 35 by Johannes Brahms at the Barbican Hall in London. Steinway Artist, Ben Schoeman is a senior lecturer in piano and musicology at the University of Pretoria. He won several awards, including the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition, Pretoria (2008), the gold medal in the Royal Over-Seas...
Debussy: Feux d'artifice (Préludes, Book 2) played by Ben Schoeman
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Pianist Ben Schoeman plays Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) "Feux d'artifice" (from Préludes for Piano, Book 2, 1913) on Rachmaninoff's London Steinway. Recorded by Zachgerard.com. Ben Schoeman is a senior lecturer in piano and musicology at the University of Pretoria, where he received the Laureate Award. He is a Steinway Artist and won several awards, including the first grand prize in the 11th U...
Scarlatti Sonata in F major K. 107 played by Ben Schoeman
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Pianist Ben Schoeman plays Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F major, K. 107 on Rachmaninoff's London Steinway. Recorded by Zachgerard.com The South African pianist and Steinway Artist Ben Schoeman won several awards, including the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA International Piano Competition, Pretoria (2008), the gold medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, London (2009), the...
Schumann Kreisleriana, Op. 16 played by Ben Schoeman
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Pianist Ben Schoeman plays Robert Schumann's (1810-1856) piano cycle 'Kreisleriana', Op. 16 at the Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA. The work was written in 1838 and revised in 1850. It has eight movements: Äusserst bewegt - Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch - Sehr aufgeregt - Sehr langsam - Sehr lebhaft - Sehr langsam - Sehr rasch - Schnell und spielend. South African pianist Ben S...
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (1929-30) played by Ben Schoeman
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The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I. Wittgenstein gave the premiere with Robert Heger and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on 5 January 1932 (it had been offered to Arturo Toscanini, who ...
Haydn Sonata in C major Hob XVI:50 played by Ben Schoeman
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Haydn Sonata in C major Hob XVI:50 played by Ben Schoeman
Ben Schoeman plays JS Bach's Toccata in C Minor BWV 911
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Ben Schoeman plays JS Bach's Toccata in C Minor BWV 911
Ben Schoeman (piano) plays Surendran Reddy's Toccata for John Roos
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Ben Schoeman (piano) plays Surendran Reddy's Toccata for John Roos
Haydn underrated? I don’t think so; he’s rightfully acknowledged as one of few, greatest composers. Personally I rank him in my own Top Six Composers.
BRAVO ❤
This kind of playing is dreamy, and I can’t imagine it any other way, even if Haydn himself were to say, “This is too buttery.”
BRAVO ❤
BRAVO ❤
BRAVO ❤👩❤️💋👨🇧🇬🇿🇦💐
Very well played. And thanks for the close-up of the hands much appreciated as a learner. Recommended by @PianoRoadmap
Tremendo!!!!!!! En mi próxima vida quiero tocar así. Felicidades por poder disfrutar en Primera persona de ese regalo
😮 im just a dude learning about sonatas because they have always attracted my attention. That was a roller coaster of emotion. They it started and ended with beauty and relief as expected. Cool. Onto the journey then. ❤
Haydn's piano sonatas have hidden depths. His slow movements are especially profound, as here. Lovely playing.
It's such a pleasure to hear such fine musicians playing the music of the great master Widor. It's a travesty that his other compositions are so largely ignored by performers today.
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Wonderful to hear the guts of the flute spilling all over the floor an then rising to holy heights....thanks musicians and the composer...HOFMEYER ECHOES
Wonderful! Thank you 😍😍😍
Should be far more views! Ben is great, but so is the orchestra - they have a beautiful sound, almost sweeping at times.
Very nice. Where is this particular piano?
I'm not passionate about anything in life as much as this person is about this piece. Resisted coughing for the whole performance thinking I'd ruin it.
Wow Ben. So excited to have found this! As a bit of a Schumann nut I've been on a bit of a search for the ideal Kreisleriana and after having listened to about 20 or so recordings on UA-cam I can honestly that you are in my favourite three (along with Micheal Demarey and Vlado Perlemuter)
Sorry that's Michiel Demarey - have a listen (fascinatingly unorthodox)
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Just brilliant - both performer and composer!! ❤❤
That was superb. They say a musician’s instrument should be an extension of their heart, and Ben clearly shows that here
Speechless
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I was in a sublime state of being while listening to this and then an ad blasted in the middle of the second movement. Whyyy?? Please, don't do this.
1:15 perfect
For my feelings, too much "delicatezza". But it's ok, we live in a free world.
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I never understand why Haydn seems to be so under appreciated .....he's as vital as Mozart or dare I say he's student Beethoven....
agreed
Honestly, I've never heard a Haydn sonata I didn't like, and I've never heard a Mozart sonata I did like (except maybe the F major (No 11 or 12 or something (can't remember))).
Haydn always seems to be too underestimated for some reasons. Mozart is lucky to have that gifted talent, but no one really see that his music is just a different version of Haydn’s and that mostly he learnt from Haydn.
Mozart is 100 million times better than Beethoven.
@@KeenBulldozer I don't want to argue of course. Everyone has their own "attachments." But it's impossible to compare them... Different 'rules of the game,' different ideas, different worlds... I want to add my two cents :) This is my movie about "Moonlight Sonata". Maybe it will add some sense. ua-cam.com/video/36zIwQoXtWk/v-deo.html
Bravissimo, interpretazione impeccabile
You can turn off the sound and you still understand Joseph Haydn's humor.
Bravo!!!
This is brilliant! Where can I get a hold of the sheet music?
Would recommend contacting Hendrik himself. He has a wix website
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Whooo. Bravo. Ben👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐💐💐👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽love. NHS👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏽👏🏽💐👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻whoooooooooo👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
32:00. Bravo. Ben 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
5:28 second movement 11:05 third. Movement
볼살 튕기는 실력도 일품.
아앀ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그거만 보여욬ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Bellísima interpretación. Y Haydn un genio tapado por Mozart y Beethoven. Su música es para disfrutar. Un genio alegre.
While as a listener I do appreciate the thick and pounding sonorities of romantic music (i.e. Liszt et al.), it takes a special touch (every listener envisions his ideal sound for the composers he likes) and a certain kind of phrasing and articulation (I imagine use of the pedal as well) on the piano for Baroque and Classical period music. Mr. Schoeman has this touch and he brings out the crystalline character of composers like Bach and Haydn and here, Scarlatti. The greatness of any composition is neither in the number of notes or length of the composition, but rather in arrangement of the units of melody, harmony and rhythm and the performer here masterfully brings out the pathos in this exquisite little diamond by Scarlatti.
What a sparkling performance as if the performer's hands had been dipped in champagne! Every phrase, from the exuberant major-key melodies to the "storm-and-stress" bursts in the minor and the long singing middle-movement lines - love those very subtle staccato-like touches - and the last bubbly movement. What comes across is a narrative woven together by shaping the individual musical phrases from within (dynamically and through a coloratura articulation) rather than just from one phrase to the next through contrast. The result: musical sculpture where the notes burst forth like strings of glistening jewels. Mr. Schoeman makes himself the channel for Haydn who comes through in unfiltered (i.e. by any distracting musical or or performance gestures) purity.
I love this description!
alcoholism was always the way lol
A transcendental and gold standard benchmark performance. Mr. Schoeman does not play Bach here: he becomes BWV 911.
Thank you very much for this generous response! I hope to upload more Bach soon!
Professor Alexandre, while listening 🎧 I could feel the goose 🦆 bumps, is he playing the piano, or is he typing the 💌 letters 🔠 of Divine, on the 🎸 instrument, my goodness, the ecstasy, the dissolution of mind, the joy of 🎴 playing, where every student, should be given an opportunity to display this 📷 video , the art 🎭 of becoming one 🕜 one with one's vocation, May God bless him
@@BenSchoeman595 deep in samadhi, becoming one with the 🎷 instrument, shows your mastery
@@BenSchoeman595 Dear Mr. Schoeman, Please keep posting. The comment below is from scholar and very dear friend (like a brother) Dr. Ramachandra Babu from India (I am from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and I sent him this link as a musical example that captures the spirit of a great Indian poet he just finished his superb P.hd thesis on: K.V. Raghupathi. I'm delighted he loved your becoming one with Bach as I did. If you'd like to read K.V. Raghupathi's poetry, I would be glad to send you PDF files (my email is: peplicus1@gmail.com). Raghupathi is one poet lovers of literature should not miss. Thank you for your music! Best
@@vrcbabu29 Absolutely, Dr. Ramachandra! This is transcendence in musical form! I'm delighted you loved it and loved your feedback. I have heard many versions of this, but I would put this up there in the top one or two (alongside Glen Gould). Same with the goosebumps 😊! Artists must receive our input. Best
wonderful play👍👍👍👍
Fantastic^^♡♡♡ It has so clear sound and l like the style changing while continuing. Thank you for uploading^^~
'n Prag-vertolking! Dankie, Ben!
I am inspired. Thank you!
Beautifully executed. Meticulous, mindful articulation. He is not afraid to be gentle at times or step back and let the piece shine. A delight.