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Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Bruch)

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purchased a box of unidentified papers for $ 11, and it proved to contain the autograph score of Rose and Ottilie's version of Bruch's concerto, a work unknown to him. The orchestral parts for the original version were bought by other people at the same auction, and Twining managed to track them
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The Sutros withdrew the concerto after the second performance and never played it again. They never played Bruch's original version at all. But they continued to make revisions to their version, amounting to thousands of changes, the last by Ottilie as late as 1961 (Rose having died in 1957).
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Bruch did not write an entirely fresh piece, but reworked music he had been writing for his planned Suite No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra (also referred to as his Orchestral Suite No. 3). The Suite used some melodies that Bruch had heard on
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Bruch gave the Sutro sisters the sole performing rights to the work. Without Bruch's permission, however, they rewrote the concerto themselves to suit their pianistic abilities, copyrighting their version and depositing it with the
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Ottilie died in September 1970, aged 98. Some of her miscellaneous scores, manuscripts and newspaper cuttings were auctioned in January 1971. The pianist
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on 29 December 1916. In 1917 they played a further revised version of the work, with the number of movements reduced from four to three, with the
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In addition to the 1973 premiere recording mentioned above, the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra has been recorded by:
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play his Fantasy in D minor for 2 pianos, Op. 11, and was so delighted that he agreed to write a double concerto for them.
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The knowledge of the existence of the concerto has its own peculiar history. It was listed in the 5th edition (1954) of
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then reconstructed Bruch's original version, and they recorded it for the first time in November 1973, with the
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The concerto has also been arranged as a work for six hands at three pianos, by
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Dr. Allan B. Ho, Music for Piano and Orchestra: The Recorded Repertory
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Liner notes to the Martin Berkofsky/Nathan Twining premiere recording.
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in 1912. It is in 4 movements, written in the rarely seen key of
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in 1916. They performed the premiere of this version with the
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In 1911, Bruch had heard the American duo-pianist sisters
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Index

Max Bruch
A-flat minor
Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra
Rose and Ottilie Sutro
Good Friday
Capri
Library of Congress
Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
New York Philharmonic
Josef Stránský
Berlin
Nathan Twining
Martin Berkofsky
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Doráti
Wilhelm BrĂĽckner-RĂĽggeberg
Grove's Dictionary
GĂĽher and SĂĽher Pekinel
Philharmonia Orchestra
Neville Marriner
Martin Berkofsky
David Hagan
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Lutz Herbig
Katia and Marielle Labèque
Semyon Bychkov
Robert Cowan
Joan Yarborough
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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