℗ 2022 SOMM Recordings
Released | April 15, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 04m 43s |
Record Label | SOMM Recordings |
Catalogue No. | SOMMCD0650 |
Genre | Classical (Piano) |
Beethoven: Symphonies, Vol. 2
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (Arr. F.X. Scharwenka for Piano Duet)
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I. Allegro con brio
Franz Xaver Scharwenka; Ludwig van Beethoven; Tessa Uys; Ben Schoeman |
7:32 | |||
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II. Andante con moto
Ludwig van Beethoven; Franz Xaver Scharwenka; Tessa Uys; Ben Schoeman |
9:04 | |||
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III. Scherzo. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven; Franz Xaver Scharwenka; Tessa Uys; Ben Schoeman |
4:50 | |||
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IV. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven; Franz Xaver Scharwenka; Tessa Uys; Ben Schoeman |
11:33 | |||
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Andante & Variations in B-Flat Major, Op. 46
Robert Schumann; Tessa Uys; Ben Schoeman |
13:28 | |||
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Variations on a Theme of Beethoven in E-Flat Major, Op. 35, R. 66
Camille Saint-Saëns; Ben Schoeman; Tessa Uys |
18:16 | |||
Digital Booklet
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SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the eagerly-awaited second volume of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo’s ground-breaking series exploring Franz Xaver Scharwenka’s transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies. A composer of no mean stature in his own right, Scharwenka’s transcriptions were once widely admired, his treatments of Beethoven’s symphonies a high-watermark of the genre. Volume 1 (SOMMCD 0637) met with universal acclaim; Gramophone praising the “mastery” of the performances, BBC Music finding it “utterly beguiling” and MusicWeb International declaring “I was blown away by this magnificent recording”. Volume 2 features the first recording of Scharwenka’s transcription of Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony for piano duet. Claiming a direct connection to Beethoven via his teacher Franz Kullak, who had studied with Beethoven’s pupil Carl Czerny, Scharwenka provides a virtuosic re-imagining of the Fifth’s tremendous scale, organic growth and seething energy. The Variations on a Theme of Beethoven by Saint-Saëns show him, Robert Matthew-Walker says in his informative booklet notes, “at his most brilliant and searching... beautiful, imposing and elegant, as well as humorous”. Robert Schumann’s Andante and Variations in B-flat reveal Romanticism’s quintessential musical poet at his most emotionally acute: “overhung with a pervading sense of intimacy, the music unfolds as a series of reflections upon the Andante theme, refracted in genuine variation styles of tempo, rhythm, tonalities (beautifully implied) and character”.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – SOMM Recordings Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.49 -3.30 to -0.42 | -23.63 -26.05 to -20.46 | -19.58 -23.00 to -16.90 | 14 13 to 15 | |
1 | I. Allegro con brio | -0.65 | -21.27 | -17.3 | 14 |
2 | II. Andante con moto | -1.65 | -25.43 | -20.5 | 14 |
3 | III. Scherzo. Allegro | -1.52 | -24.03 | -18.8 | 13 |
4 | IV. Allegro | -1.39 | -20.46 | -16.9 | 13 |
5 | Andante & Variations in B-Flat Major, Op. 46 | -3.30 | -26.05 | -23.0 | 15 |
6 | Variations on a Theme of Beethoven in E-Flat Major, Op. 35, R. 66 | -0.42 | -24.53 | -21.0 | 15 |