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"Dear Tessa, It was lovely to hear the Bach on Loose Ends, and thank you for playing it so beautifully." Ned Sherrin |
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TESSA UYS | |
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May 2012 |
| BIOGRAPHY |
| The distinguished concert pianist, Tessa Uys, was born in Cape Town and made her concert debut, aged 13, with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Winning a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Gordon Green, she was the recipient there of the MacFarren Medal. Two periods of intensive study followed: the first under Maria Curcio and the second at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Returning to England, she won the Royal Overseas League Competition and subsequently took up permanent residence in London, where she still lives. |
| During the past decades, Tessa Uys has established for herself an impressive reputation, both as a concert performer and as a broadcasting artiste, performing at many of the major concert venues in the world. She has built up an extensive repertoire, including concertos ranging from Bach to Brahms, Chopin to de Falla and Rachmaninov to Barber. Her solo piano recital repertoire is formidable, embracing the music and styles of all periods. Tessa Uys has become particularly noted for her interpretations of Schumann and Bach. Among her recordings for BBC Radio 3, she made the first broadcast recording of the 'seldom heard' Godowsky transcriptions of Twelve Schubert songs. More recently, to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death in the year 2000, she recorded the Goldberg Variations released as a double CD by GSE Claremont Records, and subsequently toured this virtuoso work both in Britain and abroad, to great acclaim. |
| Tessa Uys has played under such distinguished conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Walter Susskind, Janos Furst, Louis Fremaux and Nicholas Kraemer. She has also had the unusual privilege of working with the film producer, John Schlesinger in his film, 'Madame Sousatzka'. In 1994, she was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. |
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| BROADCASTS | |
| Live: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Schumann |
| Schumann: Arabeske / Waldszenen | |
| Studio Recording: Maida Vale | Scarlatti Beethoven |
| Scarlatti: 6 Sonatas / Beethoven: Variations Op. 191 | |
| Studio Recording: Cardiff / BBC Welsh SO | Mozart |
| Mozart: Concerto in G major, K.453 | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | McCabe Busoni |
| McCabe: Variations Op. 22 / Busoni: Carmen Chamber Fantasy | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Beethoven Schubert-Godowsky |
| Beethoven: Variations on Rule Britannia / Schubert/Godowsky: 6 Song Transcriptions | |
| Studio Recording: Cardiff / BBC Welsh SO | Mozart |
| Mozart: Concerto in C major, K.467 | |
| Live: Brandon Hill, Bristol | Scarlatti Beethoven Schumann |
| Scarlatti: 3 Sonatas / Beethoven: Variations on "Ruins of Athens" Op. 96 / Schumann: Fantasiestucke Op. 12 | |
| Studio Recording: Cardiff / BBC Welsh SO | Mozart |
| Mozart: Concerto in Bflat major, K.595 | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Stravinsky Janacek Bartok |
| Stravinsky: Sonata 1924 / Janacek: Sonata 1 (1905) / Bartok: Sonata | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Mendelssohn Schumann |
| Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses, Op. 54 / Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20 | |
| Studio Recording: Cardiff / BBC Welsh SO | Scriabin |
| Scriabin: Concerto in Fsharp minor | |
| Live Lunch-time Recital: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Bach Schubert Rachmaninov |
| Bach: English Suite in A minor / Schubert: Sonata in A major, D.664 / Rachmaninov: Suite from the Partita in E for Violin | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Weber Schumann Schubert-Liszt |
| Weber: Rondo Brillante, Op. 62 / Schumann: Phantasie, Op. 17 / Schubert / Liszt: Sei mir gegrusst / Widmung | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Scarlatti Schumann Debussy |
| Scarlatti: 3 Sonatas / Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 / Debussy: Suite, Children's Corner | |
| Cardiff / BBC Welsh SO | Mendelssohn |
| Mendelssohn: Concerto in G minor | |
| Studio Recording: Concert Hall, Portland Place | Bach |
| Bach: The Goldberg Variations | |
| Studio Recording: Maida Vale | Mozart Schubert Beethoven |
| Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K.540 / Schubert: 3 Letzte Klavierstucke / Beethoven: Eroica Variations | |
| Studio Recording: Maida Vale | Mozart Janacek Liszt Rachmaninov |
| Mozart: Variations, K.265 / Janacek: Sonata 1 (1905) / Liszt: Funeraillez / Rachmaninov: Etude tableau in C minor, Op. 33 No. 3 | |
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| CONCERTOS | ||
| Bach | Gershwin | Rachmaninov |
| Beethoven | Grieg | Saint-Saens |
| Brahms | Haydn | Scriabin |
| Barber | Liszt | Schubert/Liszt |
| Chopin | Mendelssohn | Schumann |
| de Falla | Mozart | Richard Strauss |
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| RECORDINGS | |
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Click on the sleeves to hear an
excerpt from each recording. These are streamed RealAudio
files. To obtain a free copy of the RealAudio player, click on the
icon, below: |
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Claremont Digital GSE 1540 |
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| Scarlatti -
Sonata in E major Mozart - Variations, 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman' and Adagio in B minor Schubert - Drei Klavierstucke Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op.15 Schumann/Liszt - Widmung, Op.25 No.1 |
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Ossia Classics URCD107 |
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| Schumann - Fantasiestucke
Op.12 Liszt - Legende: St. Francois de Paule and Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 in C sharp minor Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.3 in A minor |
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Claremont Digital GSE 1568/9 |
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| With the Goldberg Variations, Johann Sebastian Bach created one of the great monuments of musical art. The work's magisterial exploration of compositional and keyboard techniques was unprecedented. Tessa Uys recorded this double CD to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death in the year 2000. | |
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Claremont Digital GSE 1559 |
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| Admirer of this artist's playing will need no second bidding to acquire Tessa Uys' new CD, a finely musical and wide-ranging programme. . . cleanly and poetically projected. . .thoughtfully played with an appealing degree of intimacy. . .unerring musicianship. Musical Opinion | |
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