Ben Schoeman

Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman – Beethoven Symphonies, Vol. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:06 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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SOMM Recordings is happy to present the fourth release in the planned First Recordings of the complete Beethoven Symphonies in the legendary edition for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka, continuing a direct connection to Beethoven via his teacher Franz Kullak who studied with Beethoven’s pupil Carl Czerny, played by the ‘wholly exceptional’ duo of Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman. This new CD couples Beethoven’s Symphonies 1 & 6 ‘Pastoral’ together with Busoni’s brilliant Concertino BV88 on a theme of Mozart K459, for Two Pianos.

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Tessa Uys & Ben Schoeman – Beethoven Symphonies, Vol. 1 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:26 minutes | 969 MB | Genre: Classical
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SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major six-volume series of Franz Xaver Scharwenka’s transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies featuring the label debut of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo. Formed in 2010, the Duo began their in-concert exploration of Scharwenka’s four-hand Beethoven transcriptions in 2015 and now bring that experience to disc for the first time. Volume 1 includes the premiere recording of Scharwenka’s piano duet transcription of Symphony No.3, the ever-popular Eroica, and Debussy’s two-piano arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Six Studies in Canonic Form.

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Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman – Beethoven: Symphonies, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the eagerly-awaited second volume of the Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman Piano Duo’s ground-breaking series exploring Franz Xaver Scharwenka’s transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies. A composer of no mean stature in his own right, Scharwenka’s transcriptions were once widely admired, his treatments of Beethoven’s Symphonies a high-watermark of the genre.
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