Listen & tracks
9 works · 69:33
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SonataFrancis Poulenc 3 movements6:06
- 1 Prélude 2:06
- 2 Rustique 1:48
- 3 Final 2:12
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4 Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda Miriam Hyde 2:35
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Petite SuiteClaude Debussy 4 movements12:07
- 5 En Bateau 3:03
- 6 Cortège 3:10
- 7 Menuet 2:42
- 8 Ballet 3:12
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9 Pavan Margaret Sutherland 3:53
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10 Canonical Piece Margaret Sutherland 3:09
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11 Molly on the Shore Percy Grainger 4:20
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12 Fugue in D major for three pianos arr. from Organ Fugue, BWV 532 Johann Sebastian Bach 6:07
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13 Boolee Brenton Broadstock 6:20
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Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Op. 88aMax Bruch 4 movements24:56
- 14 Andante sostenuto 4:50
- 15 Andante con moto – Allegro molto vivace 6:13
- 16 Adagio ma non troppo 6:39
- 17 Andante – Allegro 7:14
The Team of Pianists presents a programme that pairs French four-hand writing with Australian works for two pianos by Sutherland, Hyde, Grainger and Broadstock, and a Bach organ fugue arranged for three pianos by Terence Hays.
The most significant item is the premiere Australian recording of Max Bruch’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, played by Darryl Coote and Robert Chamberlain with the New Monash Orchestra under André de Quadros.
The concerto nearly vanished. Conceived in 1904 as a Suite for orchestra and organ, it reached its final form in 1915 and was given to Bruch’s former students Rose and Ottilie Sutro. They premiered it in Philadelphia in December 1916, then rewrote it to suit their technique. After Ottilie Sutro’s death in 1970 the manuscript was found in a trunk bought for $11 by Nathan Twining. With Martin Berkofsky he recovered the orchestral parts and restored Bruch’s 1915 text, before a copyright dispute again put the work at risk.
Reviews
Debussy’s well-known Petite Suite receives a very natural, unforced performance from Robert Chamberlain and Darryl Coote… Chamberlain and Coote just play it (Ravel would have liked these guys) and the music speaks for itself. A similarly plain-speaking quality works well in Grainger’s Molly on the Shore
imposing and grandiose
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 Bruch
composer
Max Bruch's later chamber and concertante scores favour long-breathed melody and warm late-Romantic colour: the Romance for viola, the Eight Pieces for clarinet trio, and the Concerto for two pianos and orchestra.
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.
Brenton Broadstock
composer
Brenton Broadstock is one of Australia’s most established, respected and successful mid-generation composers. Over several decades he has built a substantial, varied catalogue distinguished by expressive range, structural assurance and strong engagement with performers and audiences, nationally and internationally.
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.
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.
Miriam Hyde
composer
Miriam Hyde (1913–2005) was an Australian composer, pianist and teacher whose lyrical, post-romantic voice is especially known through her piano music and works for students.
Francis Poulenc
composer
Francis Poulenc's music swings from boulevard wit to peasant devotion. Perpetual-motion piano, chamber sonatas, horn élégies, Christmas and penitential motets, a Gloria, and songs that can flirt, mourn or protest sit side by side in the catalogue.
Margaret Sutherland
composer
Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984) was an Australian composer whose work ranged across almost every form, with a particular gift for chamber music. She remains one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century Australian composition.
Terence Hays
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Team of Pianists · ensemble
- Max Cooke · piano · tracks 1–3, 5–8 and 12
- Robert Chamberlain · piano · tracks 4, 9–17
- Darryl Coote · piano
- New Monash Orchestra · orchestra · tracks 14–17
- André de Quadros · conductor · tracks 14–17
Technical credits
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Producer
Darryl Coote
Max Cooke
Robert Chamberlain
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Venue
Monash University School of Music Auditorium (tracks 14–17)
Move Records Studio (tracks 1–13)
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Thanks to
Colin & Cicely Rigg Estate
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Credit
Bernstein Australia
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 69 minutes 33 seconds
- Release date
- 1998
- Categories
- Classical, Keyboard
- Musical work copyright
- © 1998 Team of Pianists
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1998 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MCD 106
- EAN
- 9314574010626
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