Lieben Sie Brahms? - Musikfest Bremen

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Mikayel Balyan and Edoardo Torbianelli piano

Program:
Johannes Brahms: Waltz op. 39 for four hands, Ballades op. 10/1 and 2, Intermezzi op. 117/1 and 3, Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D minor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Andante and Variations in B flat major op. 83a
Robert Schumann: "Pictures from the East" op. 66
Niels Wilhelm Gade: Four Fantasy Pieces op. 41

Piano duets are perhaps the most intimate form of chamber music, as both performers have to perceive the hidden inner workings of the other at the piano in order to bring them together with their own playing as precisely as clockwork. Mikayel Balyan and Edoardo Torbianelli understand this perfectly and interpret highlights of this genre. Brahms, for example, made the Hungarian Dance or the Viennese Waltz his own and elevated his compositions above the common salon music of his time. Without taking up Arabic scales, Schumann's "Pictures from the East" in turn evokes the poetry and spirituality of the Orient. The Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade, who lived in Leipzig for a long time, was a friend of Schumann and knew Mendelssohn's work well - and, despite his admiration for both, set his own accents in his fantasy pieces. When Mikayel Balyan and Edoardo Torbianelli use their wide range of sound possibilities in four-handed interplay, it becomes clear why the duet was so popular at home on the piano in the 19th century.

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