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Topic: 4 hands music
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pianofancy
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4 hands music
on: November 02, 2004, 05:11:18 PM
Hi pianists!
Any advises here and suggestions for great 4 hands music ?
In advaced level.
Thanks!
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Floristan
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Re: 4 hands music
Reply #1 on: November 02, 2004, 05:29:45 PM
I posted this elsewhere, but it's the same answer to your question:
The Schubert Fantasie in F minor is maybe the greatest piece in the four-hand literature, IMHO. If you play nothing else, play this piece!
There are five fun Mozart sonatas for four-hands. Lots of Brahms: Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer (which are wonderful with or without the vocal quartet), the Op. 39 waltzes, and the Hungarian Dances. Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. Rachmaninoff's Op. 11 contains six fine pieces with the usual technical challenges this composer presents.
Then there are the French: Faure's "Dolly Suite," Debussy's "Petite Suite" and "6 Epigraphes Antiques" (originally 2 pianos, I believe, but there's a 4-hand version), and Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite" -- all great fun, though not really "advanced" level.
And, of course, there are four-hand transcription of all of Beethoven's symphonies that are pretty incredible. Lots of other chamber and orchestral music exists in four-hand versions, many by the composers themselves.
Generally there's more advanced literature to be found in two piano pieces than in piano four-hand pieces. Are you interested in two piano as well?
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pianofancy
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Re: 4 hands music
Reply #2 on: November 03, 2004, 05:28:56 PM
Well, I know mostly of 2 hands repertoire- but why not listen to your ideas and suggestions
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liszt1022
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Re: 4 hands music
Reply #3 on: November 04, 2004, 12:30:00 AM
I played Saint-Saens' own arrangement of his Danse Macabre for two pianos, four hands. Advanced, but SO MUCH FUN. you can't play it and not have a good time.
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