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16 Waltzes for Four Hands, Op. 39Johannes Brahms 16 movements18:20
1. 1 No. 1 in B major Tempo giusto :54
2. 2 No. 2 in E major 1:17
3. 3 No. 3 in G-sharp minor :37
4. 4 No. 4 in E minor Poco sostenuto 1:14
5. 5 No. 5 in E major Grazioso 1:28
6. 6 No. 6 in C-sharp major Vivace 1:08
7. 7 No. 7 in C-sharp minor Poco più Andante 1:45
8. 8 No. 8 in B-flat major 1:21
9. 9 No. 9 in D minor 1:06
10. 10 No. 10 in G major :29
11. 11 No. 11 in B minor 1:15
12. 12 No. 12 in E major 1:35
13. 13 No. 13 in C major :39
14. 14 No. 14 in A minor 1:17
15. 15 No. 15 in A major 1:14
16. 16 No. 16 in D minor 1:01
17 Étude Op. 10, No. 12 Frédéric Chopin in C minor (Revolutionary) 2:25
18 Reflets dans l'eau Claude Debussy 5:29
Sonata for clarinet and piano, Op. 167Camille Saint-Saëns 4 movements17:22
1. 19 i. Allegretto 4:55
2. 20 ii. Allegro animato 2:08
3. 21 iii. Lento 4:36
4. 22 iv. Molto allegro 5:43
23 Romance in F-sharp major, Op. 28 No. 2 Robert Schumann 3:47
24 The Banjo Louis Moreau Gottschalk 4:22
Piano Sonata No. 1Carl Vine 2 movements17:48
1. 25 i. Movement 1 8:42
2. 26 ii. Movement 2 9:06

The Team of Pianists has already eight commercial CDs, and now the ninth is Schimmel Artist Collection: Australia’s renowned Team of Pianists presenting the new Schimmel Concert Grand Piano K 256.

The Team has the honour of this CD being the inaugural recording in Schimmel’s Artist Collection series. The Team of Pianists comprises four principal partner-members; Max Cooke OAM, Darryl Coote, Robert Chamberlain and Rohan Murray. As Artists-in-Residence at Glenfern Estate in East St Kilda, they conduct regular concerts including the summer Rigg Bequest series Classic Music in Historic Venues during the summer, and the popular series Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea in winter.

The new Schimmel K 256 Concert Grand Piano was shipped to Melbourne in August 2005, where it was unboxed and assembled in the warehouse of Bernies Music Land in Ringwood. This allowed the Team partners to rehearse and become familiar with the instrument’s touch and character prior to recording in the studio. Agents for Schimmel pianos is Bernies Music Land, Ringwood, sponsors of the Team of Pianists, who made the production of this CD possible. Following delivery to the studios of Move Records in Eaglemont, the recording sessions took place in October 2005.

The selection of music comprises works for piano duet by Brahms, solos by Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, Gottschalk and Vine, which sit alongside the Saint-Saëns Sonata for clarinet and piano, Opus 167, which features guest clarinettist Craig Hill from the Melbourne Symphony.

Artists

Team of Pianists

ensemble

The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists is acclaimed for high standards of artistry and professionalism, and has captivated audiences in Australia and overseas for nearly twenty years through solo, chamber and concerto performance.

Johannes Brahms

composer

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. His music for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and voice remains central to the concert repertoire.

Frédéric Chopin

composer

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period. He wrote almost exclusively for the piano and remains one of its defining poetic voices.

Claude Debussy

composer

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a French composer whose harmony, colour and flexible sense of key reshaped European music at the turn of the twentieth century. Piano, orchestral and chamber works from his maturity remain central to the repertoire.

Camille Saint-Saëns

composer

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote music of classical clarity and Romantic colour: the Organ Symphony’s blazing finale, the glittering Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, the late Clarinet Sonata, and the song Clair de lune that still draws listeners into moonlight and memory.

Robert Schumann

composer

Robert Schumann (1810–1856) was a German composer and music critic of the early Romantic era. His piano works and songs remain among the most enduring of the period.

Carl Vine

composer

Carl Vine AO is one of Australia's best-known and most often performed composers, with an orchestral catalogue of eight symphonies and thirteen concertos. His piano music is played widely around the world, and recordings of his work appear on more than seventy albums across the major streaming services.