Marialena Fernandes, Ranko Markovic - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 - Liszt: Les Préludes 5 (2013)

Tracklist

01. Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: I. Massig bewegt (arr. G. Mahler for piano 4 hands)
02. Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: II. Adagio - Bewegt, quasi andante (arr. G. Mahler for piano 4 hands)
03. Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: III. Scherzo (Ziemlich schnell) [arr. G. Mahler for piano 4 hands]
04. Symphony No. 3 in D Minor: IV. Finale (Allegro) [arr. G. Mahler for piano 4 hands]
05. Les Preludes, S637/R359



The excellently attuned duo of the versatile pianist Marialena Fernandes, professor of chamber music at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, and her duo partner Ranko Markovic, head of the Conservatoire Vienna Private University, in their latest production again prove that an enormous orchestral apparatus is not necessarily the precondition for rendering the intentions of the composers of great symphonic works. The perfection of differentiated sound and the expressiveness of the two pianists' four-handed performance are almost in no way inferior to a completely equipped orchestra. On the contrary, this way it comes alive where the scores may have had their origins and how they matured in the composers' minds into the orchestral versions customary today, although the drafting of a reduced version frequently only took place in retrospect (in the case of Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony by the young Gustav Mahler, with Les Préludes by the composer and brilliant pianist Franz Liszt himself).

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