Grand-mondain Hans-Peter Stenzl & Volker Stenzl

• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925): La belle excentrique (Version for Piano 4 Hands):
• 1 Satie: La belle excentrique (Version for Piano 4 Hands): I. Grand ritournelle I 02:09
• 2 Satie: La belle excentrique (Version for Piano 4 Hands): II. Marche françaiseo-lunaire 02:17
• 3 Satie: La belle excentrique (Version for Piano 4 Hands): III. Valse du mystérieux baiser dans l'œil 02:03
• 4 Satie: La belle excentrique (Version for Piano 4 Hands): IV. Cancan grand-mondain 01:52
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60:
• 5 Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: I. Pavane de la belle au bois dormant 01:36
• 6 Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: II. Petit poucet 02:48
• 7 Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: III. Laideronnette , impératrice des pagodes 03:22
• 8 Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: IV. Lé entretiens de la belle et de la bête 03:47
• 9 Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: V. Le jardin féerique 03:23
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975): Ballet Suite No. 2:
• 10 Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 2: III. Polka (Arr. for Piano 4 Hands by Lev Atovmyan) 01:51
• Song of the Great Rivers, Op. 95:
• 11 Shostakovich: Song of the Great Rivers, Op. 95: Waltz (Arr. for Piano 4 Hands by Anonymous) 02:21
• Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925): Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 1:
• 12 Moszkowski: Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 1: No. 1, Russisch 02:20
• 13 Moszkowski: Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 1: No. 2, Deutsch 04:26
• 14 Moszkowski: Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 1: No. 3, Spanisch 01:55
• 15 Moszkowski: Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 1: No. 4, Polnisch 08:13
• 16 Moszkowski: Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 2: No. 1, Italienisch 04:07
• 17 Moszkowski: Aus aller Herren Länder, Op. 23, Pt. 2: No. 2, Ungarisch 03:30
• Total Runtime 52:00

Info for Grand-mondain

The Stenzl brothers, Hans-Peter and Volker, invite you on a special kind of European journey with their new GENUIN album. In celebration of the anniversaries of Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, Moritz Moszkowski, and Dmitri Shostakovich, they have recorded suites and individual pieces by these great composers, who often humorously look beyond their own cultural horizons. With sophistication, elegance, care, and emotion, they weave dances, melodies, and stories from all corners of the world into their music. As a distinguished German duo performing internationally for more than 30 years, they present these little treasures with a keen eye for both the larger musical narratives and intricate details - genuinely cosmopolitan!

Hans-Peter Stenzl, piano
Volker Stenzl, piano

Klavierduo Stenzl
As a piano duo, Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl have long been synonymous for musical intelligence and the highest standard of performance. Critics have marveled at their ability to achieve the “freedom of a soloist with four hands” as well as for their nuanced illumination of complex scores to the subtlest details.

After studying in Stuttgart with Renate Werner and Frankfurt with Herbert Seidel, the Stenzls completed a twoyear postgraduate program with Frank Wibaut, Hamish Milne and Stephen Kovacevich at the Royal Academy of Music in London where they received concert diplomas both as solo and duo performers with distinction. They have had private lessons with Alfred Brendel and received further important artistic impulses from Bruno Canino and Norbert Brainin.

Winners of eleven international competitions, including the 1986 ARD competition in Munich and the 1989 Dranoff Competition in Miami, the Stenzls’ extensive career has taken them to almost all European countries as well as North and South America, West Africa, Japan, China and Hong Kong.

In 1991 they made their debut at the Salzburg Festival. Since then, they have appeared in major concert halls throughout the world, including the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, the Nichols Concert Hall in Chicago, the Lincoln Theater in Miami, the Tokyo Suntory Hall, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Philharmonic Hall in Guangzhou, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Frauenkirche in Dresden, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Herkulessaal and the Gasteig in Munich, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Stefaniensaal in Graz, the Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava, the Ateneul in Bucharest, the Kolarac and the Philharmonic Hall in Belgrade, the Manoel Theatre in Malta, the International House of Music in Moscow, the Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, the Philharmonic Hall in Nishnij Novgorod, the Organ Hall in Arkhangelsk, the Philharmonic Hall in Ufa, the Opera House in Cairo, the Opera House in Alexandria, and the Teatro Teresa Careno in Caracas.

Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl have also performed as soloists under the direction of numerous renowned conductors, including Helmuth Rilling, Karl Anton Rickenbacher, Gerd Albrecht, Neal Stulberg, Wojciech Rajski, Max Pommer, Yordan Kamdzhalov, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Wolfgang Schäfer, Hans Michael Beurle, Hartmut Haenchen, Daniel Raiskin, Wayne Marshall, Martin Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Hengelbrock and Gustavo Dudamel.

Furthermore, they have worked together with Karl Michael Vogler, Hans Clarin, Loriot, Nina Petri, Gisela Schneeberger, Bernt Hahn, Roger Willemsen, Stefan Fleming in the musical-literary scene. In 1996, Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl were appointed “Associates of the Royal Academy of Music London.”

Booklet for Grand-mondain