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Behn: Der Ring / Garben, Zeyne, Hoppe
Musicaphon

Behn: Der Ring / Garben, Zeyne, Hoppe

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Details

Composer
WAGNER, RICHARD
Artist
Garben, Hoppe, Zeyen
Format
CD
Label
Musicaphon
Released
Aug 27, 2021
Catalog #
M56988
UPC
4012476569888

About

The Hamburg composer Hermann Behn (1859-1927) bore, like numerous other composers of that time, the hard fate of Wagner’s succession. After he had largely ended his compositional activities around 1883, he developed another great talent, i.e., the transference of compositional structures and the musical content of symphonic works by other composers to two pianists on two pianos. Here he broke new ground exactly at the time as the circus of excessive virtuoso opera rhapsodies of the super virtuosos collapsed. Through the use of two instruments and the development of a completely new tonal arrangement, Hermann Behn succeeded in overcoming the limits of the piano. If his arrangement of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony for two instruments turned out more or less traditional, in that the substance of the score was divided up, well-playable, between four hands, then an entirely new dimension of the rendition of symphonic music on the piano began, after Behn’s extensive studies of individual works, primarily overtures from various epochs, with the turn to Richard Wagner. The undoubtedly most extensive project ever realized in the area of transcriptions for piano, the “Fifty Symphonic Movements from Richard Wagner’s Master Dramas,” was commenced in 1914. Behn found his very personal symphonic sound already in the arrangement of the first fragments of the “Ring of the Nibelung”. To this end, he skillfully employed the doubling of chord progressions and nearly absurdly wide spans in the left hand, which could only be performed in “broken” style, i.e., by means of the rapid arpeggiation of the notes from bottom to top. In this way, an entirely intended inexactness in the congruence between the two players was inevitably produced, which – with ample use of the pedal – leads to an until then unheard-of tonal richness.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Prelude 04:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    Prelude
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  3. 2 Scene 1: — 08:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    Scene 1: —
    Duration
    08:57
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  4. 3 Scene 2: Götter und Riesen 08:00
    Track
    3
    Title
    Scene 2: Götter und Riesen
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  5. 4 Scene 3: Nibelheim 02:58
    Track
    4
    Title
    Scene 3: Nibelheim
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  6. 5 Scene 4: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla 06:07
    Track
    5
    Title
    Scene 4: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  7. 6 Act I: Prelude 04:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act I: Prelude
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  8. 7 Act I Scene 3: Siegmund und Sieglinde 06:32
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act I Scene 3: Siegmund und Sieglinde
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  9. 8 Act II: Prelude 03:08
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act II: Prelude
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  10. 9 Act II Scene 4: Todkündung 07:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act II Scene 4: Todkündung
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  11. 10 Act III: Prelude 02:52
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act III: Prelude
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  12. 11 Act III Scene 3: Leb' wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind!, "Wotan's Farewell" - Feuerzauber (Magic fire music) 14:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Leb' wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind!, "Wotan's Farewell" - Feuerzauber (Magic fire music)
    Duration
    14:24
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Thomas Hoppe
  13. Disc 2
  14. 1 Act I: Prelude 04:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I: Prelude
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen
  15. 2 Act I Scene 2: Siegfrieds Schmiedelied 03:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I Scene 2: Siegfrieds Schmiedelied
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen
  16. 3 Act II Scene 2-3: Waldweben, Stimme des Waldvogels 09:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act II Scene 2-3: Waldweben, Stimme des Waldvogels
    Duration
    09:54
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen
  17. 4 Act III Scene 3: Brünnhildes Erweckung 06:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Brünnhildes Erweckung
    Duration
    06:23
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen
  18. 5 Prologue: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Journey) 05:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    Prologue: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Journey)
    Duration
    05:16
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen
  19. 6 Act III Scene 2: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch (Siegfried's Funeral March) 05:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act III Scene 2: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch (Siegfried's Funeral March)
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen
  20. 7 Act III Scene 3: Brünnhildes Schlussgesang 19:03
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act III Scene 3: Brünnhildes Schlussgesang
    Duration
    19:03
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Cord Garben, Justus Zeyen