Wergo's Concept Series is designed to break free from the typical programmatic restraints imposed on most classical recordings; works from widely differing historic periods are intermingled, sometimes rearranged in a radical way, with the performer always the focus of the program. In this instance, the performer is Italy's Belli Piano Duo, peopled by Enrico Belli and wife Olivia. In a sense, Mythical Dances is a follow-up to Enrico Belli's solo disc Primeval Sounds, an earlier entry in Wergo's Concept Series. With Primeval ...
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Wergo's Concept Series is designed to break free from the typical programmatic restraints imposed on most classical recordings; works from widely differing historic periods are intermingled, sometimes rearranged in a radical way, with the performer always the focus of the program. In this instance, the performer is Italy's Belli Piano Duo, peopled by Enrico Belli and wife Olivia. In a sense, Mythical Dances is a follow-up to Enrico Belli's solo disc Primeval Sounds, an earlier entry in Wergo's Concept Series. With Primeval Sounds, Belli folded together George Crumb's first book of Makrokosmos with Claude Debussy's first book of preludes; here, the Bellis interleave Crumb's four-hand, fourth book of Makrokosmos with Igor Stravinsky's own piano four-hand Le sacre du Printemps.In reference to the Le Sacre du printemps, one thing noticeable right away in this interpretation is that the Bellis do not treat the work as a weak sister to the familiar orchestral version, but as an end in itself; no tweaks have...
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Add this copy of Stravinsky: Rite of Spring / Crumb: Makrokosmos IV, to cart. $30.96, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Wergo Germany.
