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Title: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: franz_ on March 26, 2010, 10:17:21 AM

Yeah, I'm looking for russian composers that wrote music for two pianos or 4 hands?
I'm looking for pieces or composers that are not overplayed or too famous.
Anyone?

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: kevinr on March 26, 2010, 11:59:48 AM

Rachmaninov wrote some suites for two pianos.

Also Stravinsky 3 Easy Pieces and 5 Easy Pieces. In each case the "easy" refers only to one of the two parts: secondo for the 3EP, primo for the 5EP. Useful if you have 2 players with unequal abilities.

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: stevebob on March 26, 2010, 12:30:11 PM

A couple of relevant titles—Music for Two or More Pianos by Maurice Hinson and Piano Duet Repertoire by Cameron McGraw—are available online at the publisher's website to anyone who registers there:

Piano Reference Books Online - Indiana University Press (https://www.iupress.indiana.edu/iol/)

No cost, no obligation (though most people will probably find that hard copies are easier to navigate).

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: franz_ on March 27, 2010, 01:20:58 PM

Anyone else?

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: camstrings on March 27, 2010, 03:00:54 PM

Nikolai Medtner: Two Pieces Opus 58.
There may be some audio samples at the Hyperion website played by Alexeev & Demidenko.

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: point of grace on March 27, 2010, 03:31:11 PM

Quote from: kevinr on March 26, 2010, 11:59:48 AM

Rachmaninov wrote some suites for two pianos.

Also Stravinsky 3 Easy Pieces and 5 Easy Pieces. In each case the "easy" refers only to one of the two parts: secondo for the 3EP, primo for the 5EP. Useful if you have 2 players with unequal abilities.

i was thinking of the same one... i dont know others...

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: stevebob on March 27, 2010, 04:25:50 PM

Quote from: franz_ on March 27, 2010, 01:20:58 PM

Anyone else?

You're welcome!

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: franz_ on March 27, 2010, 09:38:41 PM

Quote from: camstrings on March 27, 2010, 03:00:54 PM

Nikolai Medtner: Two Pieces Opus 58.
There may be some audio samples at the Hyperion website played by Alexeev & Demidenko.

Thank you. Are you supposed to play those pieces together, or can they be separated?
Or belong they together like the three pieces in Petruchka, or in Scriabins Poems Op. 32 f.e.?
If you have more russian two piano music, keep op going :)

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: fbt on March 28, 2010, 09:52:34 PM

Glinka "Capriccio on Russian Themes (1834)
Borodin "Tarantella"4hands(1862)
Balakirev "Suite" (1909)
Balakirev-Beethoven "Quartet Op.95" 2 piano
   I don't know if these are in print

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: franz_ on March 29, 2010, 11:20:23 AM

Quote from: fbt on March 28, 2010, 09:52:34 PM

Glinka "Capriccio on Russian Themes (1834)
Borodin "Tarantella"4hands(1862)
Balakirev "Suite" (1909)
Balakirev-Beethoven "Quartet Op.95" 2 piano
   I don't know if these are in print

Great! Thank you very much

Title: Re: Russian music for two pianos or 4 hands
Post by: stevebob on March 29, 2010, 11:48:06 AM

 :-X