The Mozart Anthology: Arrangements for two pianos & piano, four-hands

The Mozart Anthology is a celebration of Mozart’s music, offering five arrangements, fantasies, and showpieces as performed by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. Each work translates the spirit of Mozart’s original vision to the keyboard in a highly pianistic manner, making attractive additions to any piano duo’s recital repertoire.

The volume begins with the somber Chorale Prelude ( Der, welcher wandert diese Strasse voll Beschwerden ) from Die Zauberfloete, arranged for two pianos in homage to the chorale preludes of Bach-Busoni. By contrast, the Papageno! fantasy is essentially a game of musical twister for piano duet featuring a mash-up of Papageno’s felicitous arias (also from Die Zauberfloete).

Two works in this anthology originate from Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte. A pair of women bid a heartfelt farewell to their lovers departing by sea in the two-piano arrangement of Soave sia il vento, while the Grand Scherzo recasts the swirling, flirtatious events that close Act I as a four-movement sonata for piano, four-hands.

Rounding out the anthology is Anderson’s irreverently off-the-wall and dizzyingly virtuosic Ragtime alla turca for two pianos, based on Mozart’s Rondo Alla turca, K. 331.

All five works have been newly formatted and edited. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Arranged and adapted for two pianos and piano, four hands by Greg Anderson (b. 1981). Advanced. 74 pages. Two copies required for performance of two piano works. Published by Awkward Fermata Press.