Duplex Piano – The Piano with Two Manuals

Denis Goldfeld / Boris Faust / David Stromberg / Florian Uhlig

This concert has already taken place! 19 | 27 | 38 | 47
This concert has already taken place! 19 | 27 | 38 | 47
Denis Goldfeld
Denis Goldfeld © Dan Hannen
Duplex Piano
Duplex Piano © Raimar von Wienskowski
Boris Faust
Boris Faust © Julia Windhoff
David Stromberg
David Stromberg © Raimar von Wienskowski
Florian Uhlig
Florian Uhlig © Marco Borggreve
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • Interval

  • End ca. 21:45

Bach and the Romantics

Around 1920, the composer Emánuel Moór had the vision of building the piano of the future. His duplex piano with two manuals was born out of the spirit of the late Romantic period and offers even more tonal colours and a greater richness of sound. On an ordinary piano, one touch of the keys causes a hammer to strike the string. With the duplex piano, two hammers can be coupled: one keystroke then produces two tones simultaneously. This doubling of the tones leads to an unimagined fullness of sound in the forte, and to a magical brilliance of sound in the piano. The two manuals allow for differentiated layers of sound.

The concerto is a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach. Emánuel Moór arranged one of Bach’s most famous organ works for the duplex piano: the Dorian Toccata and Fugue. Bach’s music had a profound influence on composers after him, including Schumann, Brahms and the Swiss-German composer Joachim Raff. And so the Romantics entwine themselves around Bach on this evening.

Excellent soloists can be heard: Violinist Denis Goldfeld is an internationally renowned musician, violist Boris Faust teaches as a professor of viola at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. David Stromberg, who rediscovered the duplex piano and curates the Emánuel Moór concerts, will play the cello. Pianist Florian Uhlig is the master of the duplex piano. He was honoured with the Opus Klassik media prize and the German Record Prize for his complete recording of Robert Schumann’s piano works.

Performers

Denis Goldfeld violin

Boris Faust viola

David Stromberg violoncello

Florian Uhlig Duplex Piano

Programme

Joachim Raff
Klavierquartett Nr. 2 c-Moll op. 202

Johannes Brahms
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier e-Moll op. 38

– Interval –

Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata und Fuge d-Moll BWV 565 / Adaptation for Duplex Piano by Emanuel Moór

Robert Schumann
Klavierquartett Es-Dur op. 47

Promoter: Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband - Landesverband Hamburg e.V.

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