Sonatas for Cello and Duplex Piano Florian Uhlig & David Stromberg

• Emánuel Moór (1863 - 1931): Sonata for cello and piano in C Minor, Op. 22:
• 1 Moór: Sonata for cello and piano in C Minor, Op. 22: I. Allegro maestoso 12:21
• 2 Moór: Sonata for cello and piano in C Minor, op. 22, Op. 22: II. Adagio 06:57
• 3 Moór: Sonata for cello and piano in C Minor, op. 22, Op. 22: III. Allegro ma non troppo 05:29
• Ernst von Dohnányi (1877 - 1960): Sonata in B-flat Minor, op. 8 in B Flat Minor, Op. 8:
• 4 Dohnányi: Sonata in B-flat Minor, op. 8 in B Flat Minor, Op. 8: I. Allegro ma non troppo 08:34
• 5 Dohnányi: Sonata in B-flat Minor, op. 8 in B Flat Minor, Op. 8: II. Vivace assai 05:14
• 6 Dohnányi: Sonata in B-flat Minor, op. 8 in B Flat Minor, Op. 8: III. Adagio non troppo 03:07
• 7 Dohnányi: Sonata in B-flat Minor, op. 8 in B Flat Minor, Op. 8: IV. Tema con variazioni. Allegro moderato 09:55
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949): Sonata in F Major, op. 6 for cello and piano, Op. 6:
• 8 Strauss: Sonata in F Major, op. 6 for cello and piano, Op. 6: I. Allegro con brio 09:24
• Sonata for cello and piano in F Major, op. 6, Op. 6:
• 9 Strauss: Sonata for cello and piano in F Major, op. 6, Op. 6: II. Andante ma non troppo 07:46
• 10 Strauss: Sonata for cello and piano in F Major, op. 6, Op. 6: III. Allegro vivo 07:54
• Total Runtime 01:16:41

Info for Sonatas for Cello and Duplex Piano

With their project ‘The Duplex Coupler Grand Piano’, Florian Uhlig and David Stromberg breathe new life into a forgotten concept. The composer Emánuel Moór, whose works combine wonderful melodies and surprising harmonic twists, developed the ‘Duplex Coupler Piano’ that incorporated a double keyboard. With keys coupled at the octave, this enabled works to achieve special shades of sound. The unique instrument is featured in this recording by David Stromberg and Florian Uhlig of cello sonatas by Moór, Dohnányi and Richard Strauss.

David Stromberg, violoncello
Florian Uhlig, duplex-piano

David Stromberg
Cellist David Stromberg seeks new listening experiences - whether with the baroque cello, the cello piccolo or the modern cello. He is fascinated by early music as well as new music, he searches for new forms of expression in improvisation, arranges well-known masterpieces so that they appear in a completely new guise, and he researches forgotten instruments.

Together with cellist Sebastian Hess, David Stromberg discovered the composer Emanuel Moór. They recorded a CD with solo and chamber music works by Emanuel Moór in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk. In the double concerto for two cellos they were accompanied by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

Emanuel Moór developed the Duplex Piano, a piano with two manuals and special sound characteristics. In cooperation with Deutschlandradio, David Stromberg and pianist Florian Uhlig created this world's first CD with the Duplex Piano, on which the two artists present late romantic sonatas for cello and piano. It will be released in the spring of 2023 on the Oehms Classics label.

His CD "Transition" was also released in cooperation with Deutschlandradio. On it, he plays Schumann's Cello Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, and other Romantic character pieces in his own arrangements for cello and wind quintet. David Stromberg published these arrangements with Sikorski Musikverlag. The CD became "CD of the Week" at SWR, reviews were published at NDR, SWR, Deutschlandradio Kultur and in print media such as "Concerti", "Die Welt", the "Wiener Zeitung" and the magazine "sonic".

The complete recording of the solo suites for cello by Johann-Sebastian Bach on baroque instruments was released in the summer of 2022 on the Oehms Classics label.

David Stromberg initiated the "Emanuel Moór Concert Series" in Hamburg, focusing on the Duplex Piano. The final concert in 2022 took place at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In this year David Stromberg made music together with Mirijam Contzen, Sophia Jaffé, Lena Neudauer, Hartmut Rohde. A radio recording of Deutschlandradio was made with the Hofer Symphoniker.

David Stromberg completed his cello studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in the class of Prof. Wolfgang Mehlhorn as well as at the Music Institute Schloss Edsberg in Stockholm with Prof. Frans Helmerson.

Improvisation has occupied David Stromberg for a long time and he gives master classes on "Improvisation of cadenzas in classical solo concerts" at conservatories.

Florian Uhlig
was born in 1974 in Düsseldorf. He studied in London with Peter Feuchtwanger and continued his studies at the Royal College of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he lives as well as in Berlin. He has received the „Fondation Européenne de la Culture" Prize as well as the Queen Elizabeth Rose Bowl and Stephen Arlen Memorial Prize of the English National Opera. He presents solo concerts worldwide: from Brussels to Johannesburg (Linder Auditorium) and Capestadt (Baxter Concert Hall), from Cologne (Philharmonic) and Lonodon (Wigmore Hall, South Bank and Barbican Centre) and Munich (Herkulessaal, Prinzregententheater) to New York, Paris, Prag (Rudolfinum) and Vienna (Musikverein).

Florian Uhlig has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, France Musiques Paris, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Strausstagen Garmisch, etc. He has recorded CDs among others for Hänssler Classsics and Wergo. Florian Uhlig is also a highly sought chamber music partner, also plays with Hermann Prey, holds master courses and is guest professor at international locations. Florian Uhlig's very extensive repertoire also contains contemporary music.

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