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Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov - Beethoven and His Teachers: Music for Piano, Four Hands (2011) 2CDs

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Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov - Beethoven and His Teachers: Music for Piano, Four Hands (2011) 2CDs

Beethoven and His Teachers: Music for Piano, Four Hands (2011) 2CDs
Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov, period piano; Maria Ferrante, soprano

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Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572519-20 | Time: 01:32:20

Performing on early 19th-century pianos from the Frederick Historic Piano Collection, competition prizewinners Dmitry Rachmanov, a Juilliard graduate, and Cullan Bryant, a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, explore the interrelationships between the keyboard music of Beethoven and his principal teachers in this fascinating double-album of rarities for piano four-hands, culminating in a revelatory account of the Great Fugue in Beethoven’s own keyboard arrangement. The distinctive sonorities of these highly esteemed period instruments transport the listener back to the time when Beethoven, his teachers or his own pupils, may have performed this music themselves for the first time.

Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov - Beethoven and His Teachers: Music for Piano, Four Hands (2011) 2CDs

This is an outstanding release and one that might easily be overlooked. While I am not generally a period instrument person, I do appreciate hearing works performed on an excellent instrument appropriate for the period where they were written. Here we have not one, but two fascinating fortepianos: Caspar Katholnig, Vienna, circa 1805-10 and Johann Tröndlin, Leipzig, 1830. Both have been expertly maintained and preserved by the Frederick Historic Piano Collection in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. All works except the Three Marches and the Great Fugue are performed on the Katholnig, reserving the Tröndlin for the two largest works. The dynamic range coaxed out of both instruments is a testament to the abilities of Bryant and Rachmanov, who should also be commended for their absolute dead-on ensemble. I have sat shoulder-to-shoulder with another pianist at an 1860s square piano (once played by Brahms) and can only imagine the difficulties the earlier, smaller instruments would present. A telling picture in the booklet shows both men off at a slight angle to the center of the keyboard. The sound these instruments produce is different from a modern piano in the sonorities for each register (low, middle, and high). The highest notes sound much more akin to a plucked violin or even a marimba or xylophone, while the middle is closest to our modern home spinet pianos. The bass is, as expected, not as full and sonorous as a modern grand, but very clear and never muddy. At the loudest moments in the Marches you hear kind of a raspy twang that reminds you of the percussion that is often associated with marches—a truly unique effect.

It would be easy to label this entire release rarities. Of the five significant compositions by Beethoven, which account for more than half the total time, only one, the Grosse Fuge, has come my way for review in the past several years. The Variations on ‘Ich denke dein’ are listed as a world premiere recording. Beethoven notated the theme for soprano and piano four-hands. The Magic Flute pieces are quite enjoyable and the only thing I have ever heard by an early teacher of Beethoven, Christian Gottlob Neefe. Perhaps the most entertaining piece here is the Haydn Divertmento. Based on the familiar Harmonious Blacksmith theme, this two-movement work is a set of variations and a minuet. The variations, as the subtitle ‘Il Maestro e lo Scolare’ implies, exploits the master and student relationship. Never was there a master and student who could so accurately imitate each other as the two pianists here.

Whether you are an expert in the field of period instruments or just curious about their sound, you owe it to yourself to make this recording a part of your collection. The repertoire, performers, booklet notes, and recorded sound are all superb; and I plan to keep this one on my active listening stack for the foreseeable future.

Review by James Harrington, American Record Guide

This recording by Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov gives fans of piano duet music the chance to hear a couple of rarities, plus Beethoven's duets on period instruments. Beethoven and His Teachers mixes the works of Beethoven with pieces by three men known to have taught the great master at some point. Christian Gottlob Neefe was an organist and opera conductor mostly known for being Beethoven's first significant composition teacher, but he also made piano arrangements of and prepared vocal-piano scores for Mozart's opera music. His Six Easy Pieces from Die Zauberflöte are quite charming and capture several of the most famous melodies. Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, a friend of the Haydns, taught Beethoven harmony and counterpoint. Albrechtsberger's Prelude and Fugue is a Classical-era take on the Baroque form, but it still uses a few of the ornamental and fantasia traits of the earlier period. Haydn's Il Maestro e lo Scolare, well-known to duet students, but rarely recorded, is performed by Bryant and Rachmanov quite winningly, both acting as equal partners in agreeable imitation throughout the variations. Among the highlights of Beethoven's duets are the duo's reading of the Waldstein Variations, WoO 67, and the Variations on Ich denke dein, WoO 74, for which they are joined by Maria Ferrante, who sings the theme of the work. The inclusion of Beethoven's own transcription of the Grosse Fuge is of interest because of the use of the historical instrument, but, even as well as Bryant and Rachmanov play it, it doesn't quite live up to the effectiveness of the string quartet version. Overall, however, this recording is a great choice for those looking for original instrument performances of this repertoire.

Review by Patsy Morita, Allmusic.com

Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov - Beethoven and His Teachers: Music for Piano, Four Hands (2011) 2CDs


Cullan Bryant and Dmitry Rachmanov, period piano
Maria Ferrante, soprano
Pianos by Caspar Katholnig, Vienna, c.1805–1810 (CD1 tracks 1–10 & CD2 tracks 1–3)
and Johann Nepomuk Tröndlin, Leipzig 1830 (CD1 tracks 11–13 & CD2 track 4)
from The Frederick Historic Piano Collection

Tracklist:

CD1:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
[1]-[2] Sonata in D, Op. 6 (1797)

Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798)
[3]-[8] Sechs leichte Stücke (Six Easy Pieces) from Mozart’s opera, Die Zauberflöte (1793)

Ludwig van Beethoven
[9] Eight Variations in C major on a Theme by Count Waldstein, WoO 67 (1794)

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809)
[10] Prelude and Fugue in B flat (1796)

Ludwig van Beethoven
[11]-[13] Drei Märsche, Op. 45 (1804)

CD2:

Ludwig van Beethoven
[1] Six Variations in D on the Air Ich denke dein, WoO 74 (1805)
Maria Ferrante soprano

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
[2]-[3] Divertimento in F, Hob.XVIIa:1, Il Maestro e lo Scolare (The Master and the Pupil) (c.1766–1767)

Ludwig van Beethoven
[4] Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op. 134 (1827)


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