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1 of 20 tracks have a preview · 8 works · 72:04
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Dolly Suite Op. 56Gabriel Fauré 6 movements14:31
- 1 Berceuse 2:32
- 2 Mi-a-ou 1:50
- 3 Le Jardin de Dolly 2:37
- 4 Kitty Valse 2:09
- 5 Tendresse 3:12
- 6 Le Pas Espagnol 2:11
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7 Andante and Variations in B♭ major Op. 83a Felix Mendelssohn 11:33
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8 Fantasie in F minor Op. 103, D 940 Franz Schubert 16:43
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Cocktail SuiteMichael Easton 5 movements10:05
- 9 Rum Punch Rag 2:08
- 10 Whisky Sour Waltz 2:17
- 11 Tequila Tango 1:49
- 12 Martini Melody 2:01
- 13 Schneider Cup Charleston 1:50
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14 Auf der Heide blühen die letzten Rosen Robert Stolz 5:00
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15 Jamaican Rumba Arthur Benjamin 1:53
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16 Zanzibar Boat Song Percy Grainger 4:00
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17 Toccata in F major, BWV 540 Johann Sebastian Bach 8:19
The programme ranges from Fauré’s Dolly Suite and Mendelssohn’s Andante and Variations to Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor, Michael Easton’s light-hearted Cocktail Suite, and Benjamin’s Jamaican Rumba. It closes with Grainger’s six-hand Zanzibar Boat Song and his three-piano arrangement of Bach’s Toccata in F major.
Max Cooke and Darryl Coote share the four-hand works. Robert Chamberlain joins them for the Grainger pieces. The sessions were recorded at Move Records Studio, Melbourne, in February and April 1994.
In the artist’s words
This music was intended for a film set on a train. First I wrote songs, but the singer could not look dignified dashing through the Kentish countryside at one hundred miles per hour: the string quartet gave up at the first set of points, and I finally settled on piano duet. By that time the projected film had run out of money, and so I wrote the music as a little Suite of duet pieces, each based on a favourite cocktail.
Reviews
... it is a superb record. Get it.
Move is to be praised for telling us which pianist plays primo, secondo, or terzo. Most recordings fail to do this ... I found the piano sound to be good ... the recorded sound is clean.
Pianism of the highest order, stamped with individuality and personality.
The pianists Max Cooke, Darryl Coote and Robert Chamberlain are to be congratulated - I have no hesitation in recommending this compact disc to all music enthusiasts
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.
Max Cooke
piano
Max Cooke's playing anchors decades of Team of Pianists recordings: Mozart sonatas and fantasies, Brahms for four hands and two pianos, and Sculthorpe's piano music shaped with melodic clarity and rhythmic charm.
Robert Chamberlain
piano
Robert Chamberlain studied piano in Melbourne with Max Cooke, continued in Vienna with David Lutz and Igo Koch, and worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, coaching with artists including John Perry, Peter Donohoe, János Starker and Loránd Fenyves.
Darryl Coote
piano
Darryl Coote's piano playing favours natural, unforced line and clear colour, whether alone or in the closely matched ensemble work that defines the Team of Pianists. He moves between Chopin, Schubert and Brahms and the Australian repertoire with the same plain-speaking poise.
Johann Sebastian Bach
composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.
Michael Easton
composer
Michael Easton (1954–2004) was a British-born composer, pianist and arranger who settled in Melbourne in 1982. His music is accessible, wickedly witty and finely crafted, drawing on French models and jazz.
Gabriel Fauré
composer
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was a French composer, pianist, organist and teacher whose music links late Romanticism with early modernism. His best-known works include the Requiem, the Pavane, and a large body of songs and piano music.
Percy Grainger
composer
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. A brilliant folk-song collector and arranger, he was also a restless experimenter whose work ranged from tuneful percussion to Free Music machines that foreshadowed electronic synthesis.
Felix Mendelssohn
composer
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. His works include symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music.
Franz Schubert
composer
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. In only thirty-one years he left a vast body of work, including over six hundred Lieder, and remains among the most frequently performed composers.
Arthur Benjamin
composer
Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960) was an Australian composer, pianist and teacher, best known for the evergreen Jamaican Rumba and for a substantial body of chamber, piano and orchestral music long neglected at home.
Robert Stolz
composer
Robert Stolz was a composer who wrote an infinite number of unforgettable melodies, but his life which spanned through to the second half of this century placed him a little too late to capture all the glitter of the Viennese ballrooms of the Strauss era.
Joan Trimble
composer
Joan Trimble's music joins Impressionist harmony to the melodic and rhythmic turn of Irish traditional airs. She wrote and performed for two pianos, and arranged Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rumba for the duo medium she knew from the keyboard.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Team of Pianists · ensemble
- Max Cooke · piano
- Robert Chamberlain · piano · tracks 16 and 17
- Darryl Coote · piano
Technical credits
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Producer
Darryl Coote
Max Cooke
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Editing Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Venue
Move Records Studio
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 72 minutes 4 seconds
- Release date
- 1994
- Categories
- Australian, Classical, Keyboard
- Musical work copyright
- © 1994 The Team of Pianists
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1994 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3158
- EAN
- 9314574315820
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