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. The manuscript of the Great Fugue in the fourhanded piano version was rediscovered in 2005. Beethoven’s publisher released it in 1827 as Nr. 134 of his opus. Originally, the work was composed as the closing movement of his String Quartet in B flat major op. 130, and was premiered in this form by the Schuppanzigh Quartet; but the publisher Mathias Artaria suggested to lift it as a single from the piece (published as op. 133) and to compose another closing movement. Beethoven followed this suggestion, as well as the recommendation to arrange a four-handed version for the piano.
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