Piano//Duo EnsariSchuch
Brahms: Popular from the East

Brahms at the center of a complex network of relationships: the Turkish-German Piano//Duo EnsariSchuch not only traces his Hungarian connections, but also his influence on his Czech colleague Antonín Dvořák, whom Brahms introduced to his own publisher Fritz Simrock - who then ordered the popular "Slavonic Dances", which were based on the model of the famous "Hungarian Dances". Brahms reveals himself as a follower and admirer of Robert Schumann in 1861 in the Variations op. 23, in which he takes up the moving theme of the older colleague's "Ghost Variations," still unpublished at the time.


Piano//Duo EnsariSchuch

Gülru Ensari
Piano

Herbert Schuch
Piano


Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance op. 72,1

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 2

Béla Kéler
Üstökös-Csárdás (Comet Csárdás)

György Kurtág
Hungarian language course for foreigners from the Jatekok cycle (since 1973)

Béla Bartók
Hungarian Peasant Songs No. 11

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.11 in combination with Tanju Okan "Deniz ve mehtap"
Hungarian Dance No. 4

György Kurtág
Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály
Basic elements 1 + 2

Béla Bartók
Hungarian Peasant Song No. 2 Andante

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1
Variations on a theme by Schumann op. 23

Robert Schumann
Piano quintet in the arrangement by Clara Schumann for piano four-hands



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