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Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

Piano Duo Soós-Haag

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

Piano Duo Soós-Haag

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Dvorák's Slavonic Dances are undoubtedly among the greatest treasures of piano music for four hands. With them, the composer, whose fame had until then been largely limited to his homeland, suddenly achieved an international breakthrough. Playing sovereignly with an ingeniously invented folklorism, they represent his very own musical personal style. The Swiss piano duo Adrienne Soós & Ivo Haag present them here in the technically immensely demanding original piano version with a great sense of the musicianly exuberance of this music.

Artistic curiosity and high musical standards are the hall¬marks of the Hungarian-Swiss piano duo Adrienne Soós and Ivo Haag. "...one of the best piano duos in the world" – "in addition, the duo's interaction is magnificent. This is not a case of two soloists playing together, but a real duo that lives and breathes together." These are just some of the things the critics said.

Soós and Haag are driven by the desire to explore the rich repertoire of music for piano duets and two pianos and to make it accessible to a wide audience. With large-scale projects such as the performance of complete cy¬cles of the four-hand piano works of Franz Schubert and the four-hand/two-piano works of Debussy and Ravel in the Old Church Boswil, as well as their well thought-out, intelligent pro¬grammes, they have earned themselves an outstanding reputa¬tion far beyond the borders of Switzerland

The duo has been awarded the Zuger Werkjahr award for its work. Adrienne Soós und Ivo Haag were also recently named official Bösendorfer Artists. Both pianists studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest under Péter Solymos, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados, among others. Their cooperation with András Schiff has had a major influence on them.

Contents and tracklist

I. Presto
Track length3:51
II. Allegretto scherzando
Track length4:45
III. Poco Allegro
Track length4:28
IV. Tempo di minuetto
Track length6:31
V. Allegro vivace
Track length3:15
VI. Allegretto scherzando
Track length4:53
VII. Allegro assai
Track length3:15
VIII. Presto
Track length4:06
I. Molto vivace
Track length4:27
II. Allegretto grazioso
Track length4:43
III. Allegro
Track length3:23
IV. Allegretto grazioso
Track length4:59
V. Poco adagio
Track length2:32
VI. Moderato, quasi minuetto
Track length3:50
VII. Presto
Track length3:28
VIII. Lento grazioso, quasi tempo di valse
Track length6:10

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