OLIVER DAVIS
Davis: Blue Beth & Flo (Pianos / Piano Four Hands), Grace Davidson and Julia Doyle (sopranos), Joshua Davidson (treble), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Signum / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] This is Oliver Davis' first album dedicated to the piano, and specifically two pianists, Dutch piano duo Beth & Flo. The album features this dynamic duo playing four hands piano and also on two pianos with full orchestra. The song cycle 'Siren Songs'... |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [ V2 Music / CD - released 4/Jul/2006 ] CYHSY have received numerous accolades from the music press, including selection as a "Hot Band" in Rolling Stone's annual "Hot Issue" and were the NME's pick of the CMJ Music Marathon in September 2005. |
Cut Off Your Hands
Blue on Blue [ Levityland Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Jul/2007 ] Playing an infectious, art-influenced brand of proto-punk indie rock, the young NZ quartet Cut Off Your Hands has been riding high on a wave of critical acclaim and industry attention. |
Cut Off Your Hands
HLLH (LP) [ HLLH / LP - released 16/Oct/2020 ] Fall into the colourful rhythm of everyday life, of mums with prams and gym clothes. Of small computers and meal plans. The beautiful sparkle of simplicity, like the sun on the ocean or a car bonnet. Influenced by the likes of Grace Jones and Talking... |
LENNOX BERKELEY / RICHARD ARNELL / STEPHEN DODGSON / CONSTANT LAMBERT
Tournament for Twenty Fingers - piano duets Emma Abbate & Julian Perkins (piano four hands) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] A high-spirited journey through English music for piano four hands. |
MAHLER / GERSHWIN / GINASTERA / BERNSTEIN / etc
El Sistema At The Salzburg Festival National Children's Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela & White Hands Choir Venezuela, Simon Rattle, Maybeth Garcia & Luis Chinchill [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] El Sistema is the international famous phenomenon from Venezuela and the invitation of the National Children´s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the White Hands Choir to the Salzburg Festival 2013 show their musical and educational quality.... |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Hysterical [ LP - released 6/Oct/2011 ] |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility [ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] New Fragility is the 6th album by indie band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the music project led by Philadelphia-born Alec Ounsworth. Since their debut album in 2005, which garnered positive reviews and press attention, they have been operating pretty... |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility (LP) [ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] New Fragility is the 6th album by indie band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the music project led by Philadelphia-born Alec Ounsworth. Since their debut album in 2005, which garnered positive reviews and press attention, they have been operating pretty... |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility (Opaque Bone Coloured LP) [ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] New Fragility is the 6th album by indie band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the music project led by Philadelphia-born Alec Ounsworth. Since their debut album in 2005, which garnered positive reviews and press attention, they have been operating pretty... |
Bear Hands
Burning Bush Supper Club [ Other Tounges / 2 CD - released 11/Jul/2011 ] Includes exclusive second disc! Bear Hands present their addictive power indie pop with their debut album, 'Burning Bush Supper Club'. |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Hysterical [ Universal Music / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] |
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Only Run [ Xtra Mile/ Kartel / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] "As Always," the first song on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's fourth album, is an enormous-sounding rush of ambient noise, thunderclap snare shots, iridescent guitar beauty and singer Alec Ounsworth guardedly assuring, "Sooner or later I will change/And... |
Cut Off Your Hands
You and I: Limited Edition [ Speak N Spell / Universal Music New Zealand / 2 CD/DVD - released 9/Oct/2008 ] This strictly limited version of the 'You and I' album includes a bonus DVD, which features six videos by Cut Off Your Hands. |
Cut Off Your Hands
You and I [ Speak N Spell / Universal Music New Zealand / CD - released 9/Oct/2008 ] After debuting in 2006 with the bristling 'Shaky Hands' EP, Auckland 4-piece, Cut Off Your Hands quickly set stages and airwaves on fire across New Zealand, Australia and beyond... |
MESSIAEN / BEETHOVEN
Visions de l'Amen / Great Fugue Duo d'Accord (piano four hands) [ OEHMS / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] In its new CD, the Duo d'Accord once again presents musical rarities: Messiaen's spiritually motivated Visions de l'Amen appear next to Beethoven's mysterious counterpoint masterpiece, the Great Fugue, in Beethoven's own piano version for four hands.... |
Hands
Synesthesia [ Kill Rock Stars / CD - released 26/Apr/2013 ] |
Hands
Synesthesia (Vinyl) [ Kill Rock Stars / LP - released 26/Apr/2013 ] |
Hands Like Houses
Ground Dweller [ Rise Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] |
Hands Like Houses
Unimagine [ Warner / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] |
Hot Little Hands
Dynamite in Black and White [ Isaac Promotions / CD - released 23/Apr/2009 ] Three years in the making, this ambitious debut features a who's who of Australian musicians including Architecture in Helsinki's Gus Franklin, James Wilkinson from High Pass Filter and Guitar tapping maestro, Cornel (aka Qua). |
Hundred in the Hands
Hundred in the Hands [ Warp Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] |
The Hundred in the Hands
Red Night [ Warp / CD - released 22/Jun/2012 ] Sophomore album from Brooklyn Electronic Indie Pop duo The Hundred in the Hands. |
Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands
Cody'S Dream [ Bloodshot / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
New Zealand Birds of the Forest / Brian Hands Concert Orchestra
Melody of the Birds [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] Bird calls of the New Zealand forest heard to the lush background of a string orchestra. Versions of many of Māoridom's best loved melodies played by the Brian Hands Concert Orchestra. Among the tunes are "Pōkarekare Ana", "Haere Mai",... |
SATIE / TAILLEFERRE / HONEGGER / AURIC / etc
Les Six & Satie Pascal & Ami Rogé (piano 4 hands) [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Pascal Rogé, long considered the greatest exponent of French piano repertoire is joined by his pianist wife Ami in a programme devoted to Les Six - the group of composers brought together by Jean Cocteau in 1917 and who created a musical reaction to... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Overtures for Organ Four Hands Pietro Pasquini & Francesco Zuvadelli (organ‐4‐hands) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Nov/2014 ] Although usually performed by large orchestras, this new release brings the overture - an introduction to an opera, ballet, suite or oratorio - to the organ, in innovative arrangements for four hands. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 & 65 / Hungarian Dances RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle, Angela Gassenhuber, Philip Mayers (piano four hands) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] In these love songs in waltz style for chorus or solo voices accompanied by piano four hands, Brahms freely indulged his taste for Viennese folk music. The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin instils a wonderful inner life in these musical landscapes, sometimes... |
ERIK SATIE
Complete works for piano four-hands Sandra & Jeroen van Veen (piano four-hands) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Piano Duo Sandra & Jeroen were established in 1987, and since then have toured extensively. |
The Shaky Hands
Let It Die [ Kill Rock Stars / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
The Shaky Hands
Let It Die (Vinyl) [ Kill Rock Stars / LP - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
The Shaky Hands
Lunglight [ Kill Rock Stars / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
The Shaky Hands
Lunglight (Vinyl) [ Kill Rock Stars / LP - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Piano Music Vol. 5: Overtures Alexander Paley, Brian Zeger (piano, four hands) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Weber's childhood was in a theatrical environment as the family was part of his father's touring theatre company. He had been born in 1786 in Germany and given the names Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber. His education was haphazard as the company... |