SKU: BT.PWM51600031

English.

Variations in C major for 4 hands WN 5. Rondo in D major for 2 pianos WN 15. Series B. Works published posthumously. Volume IX. Version with English and Polish commentary. Second piano part for Rondo in C major is included. First Edition, Foundationfor NE 2010.

SKU: HL.49005685

ISBN 9790001061254. UPC: 884088072452. 12.5x8.75x0.428 inches.

In January 1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann interrupted the completion of his opera Die Soldaten [The Soldiers] in order to rearrange his orchestral work Dialoge for two pianos. Monologe takes up the original material but develops it towards a different direction: Zimmermann's collage technique based on quotations extends over the entire musical setting so that it is not only Mozart (Piano Concerto in C major KV 467) who has his say but Beethoven, Messiaen and Bach as well. Monologe is a piece for two pianists; real monologues of these pianists who, though simultaneously, [...] do not always play at the same time; [...] losing themselves in their own thoughts, as it were. -Zimmermann.