•Duo Stephanie and Saar’s Beethoven Dialogues, the second New Focusrelease, contains three 4-hand piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s iconic op. 18 set of string quartets. It...

•Duo Stephanie and Saar’s Beethoven Dialogues, the second New Focusrelease, contains three 4-hand piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s iconic op. 18 set of string quartets. It is fascinating to hear this timeless material lifted out of itsoriginal context and instrumentation and placed onto a keyboard, revealing much about the core strength and malleability of Beethoven’s writing. These transcriptions by Hugo Ulrich and Robert Wittman skillfully adapted the famous op. 18 set forfour hand play.