Beethoven und Schubert hoch zwei Daisuke Miyazaki & Yoko Miyazaki

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonate für Klavier zu vier Händen in D Major, Op. 6
• 1I. Allegro molto02:41
• 2II. Rondo - Moderato02:54
• 3I. Allegro ma non troppo04:24
• 4II. Tempo di minuetto03:11
• 5Sechs Menuette, WoO 1010:54
• 6Walzer von Franz Schubert10:14
• 7Neun Ländler, D. 37005:47
• 8Elf Ländler, D. 37406:26
• Total Runtime46:31

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After graduating their concert exams with distinction from the Musikhochschule Stuttgart the siblings Daisuke & Yoko Miyazaki present their second album BEETHOVEN UND SCHUBERT HOCH ZWEI.

The sonata D Major op. 6 is one of the few of Beethoven’s original compositions for piano and four hands, and was written in his early life. It faces the following two pieces which where arranged for piano duo by Gunter Maier.

The first piano part of both works the sonata op. 49 G Major as well as the Sechs Menuette WoO 10 are the originals being extended by an accompanying second piano part.

The second part of the CD focuses the works of Schubert. Very impressive is a rare piece of Sergei Prokofiev dealing with Schubert’s music: Walzer von Franz Schubert arranged for four hands.

The CD ends with the Ländler D 370 and D 374 by Franz Schubert. Originally passed on only as fragments these two pieces have been arranged for four hands by Gunter Maier as well.

Daisuke & Yoko Miyazaki, piano

Duo Miyazaki
After successfully studying solo piano in Japan, the young Japanese piano duo Daisuke and his sister Yoko Miyazaki have been studying with Prof. Hans-Peter Stenzl since 2009 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In July 2011, they finished their master‘s degree with honors and completed a postgraduate study program for piano duo. They are the first two students to take part in the graduate program of the Stuttgart Academy of Music as a piano duo.

Daisuke and Yoko Miyazaki perfected their musical education by attending master classes with Prof. Hans-Peter Stenzl and Prof. Volker Stenzl in the national academy in Ochsenhausen and in Nowy Sacz in Poland.

The Miyazaki siblings have also had the chance to gat her considerable concert experience in Germany and Japan. In January 2009, they debuted as a piano duo in Tokyo. They performed in the concert series “Musikpause”, in a benefit concert in Stuttgart “Fruchtkasten am Schillerplatz”, in a special concert of the Fürst Fugger Privatbank Stuttgart as well as in an anniversary concert at the Goethe-Institut in Freiburg. They have performed in several concerts in the Stuttgart Academy of Music, such as the Brahms concert, in the anniversary concert for Hermann Keller and in the concert “Japanese Congress II”. In addition, they won a prize in the 2012 Bruno-Frey-Awards and will perform in 2013 at the laureate concert.

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