Music for Two Pianos Vol. 1: Copland, Infante, Bartok, Rachmaninov and Bennett

Copland (Composer), Peggy Abbot (Composer), Patrice Williams (Composer), Bennett (Composer), Rachmaninov (Composer), Infante (Performer), Bartok (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Infante, Bartok
• Composer: Copland, Peggy Abbot, Patrice Williams, Bennett, Rachmaninov
• Audio CD (December 15, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eroica Classical Recordings
• ASIN: B00000FDIM
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #834,445 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Danzon Cubano

2. Sentimiento

3. Sentimiento

4. Mikrokosmos: Bulgarian Rhythm

5. Mikrokosmos: Perpetuum Mobile

6. Mikrokosmos: Short Canon and Its Inversion

7. Mikrokosmos: New Hungarian Folk Song

8. Mikrokosmos: Chromatic Invention

9. Mikrokosmos: Ostinato

10. Second Ste: Waltz

11. Second Ste: Romance

12. Samba Triste

13. Country Blues

14. Ragtime Waltz

15. Finale

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1.0 out of 5 stars Home-made recording at home!?, June 8, 2004

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This review is from: Music for Two Pianos Vol. 1: Copland, Infante, Bartok, Rachmaninov and Bennett (Audio CD)

Dreadful, dreadful... just dreadful. Despite the superbly interesting programme, the performance is dull, and uninspired. The recording quality sounds as if you just placed two Radio-Shack microphones in each of the pianos, recorded on a portable, cassette Walkman. The instruments used in the recording may be Steinways, but it is doubtful that quality instruments were used. The entire album sounds like they were recorded on old, unmaintained baby grands, probably model M, instead of finer, larger instruments. The acoustic environment resembles a small, carpetted living room where no reverberation could possibly take place. The sense of harsh, mediocre sound as if my head is stuck in the pianos, with the uninspired performance of these magnificent work is an impressive display of misguided amateurism that deserves to be confined to the same living room where the recording was probalby made.