Neal Peres da Costa talks about his Streicher piano

Neal Peres Da Costa introduces us to his Streicher piano - a beautiful 'Viennese-action' grand piano just like Brahms himself used to play!

Neal plays this piano on his beautiful new album, 'Pastoral Fables', in a unique combination with a modern cor anglais!

'Pastoral Fables' available now: https://abcmusic.lnk.to/pastoralfablesID

On Pastoral Fables, Alexandre Oguey and Neal Peres da Costa take famous sonatas by Brahms, Beethoven and Schumann and rearrange them for cor anglais and period piano.

The cor anglais (woodwind instrument of the oboe family) is the instrument used by many composers in some of the most arresting moments of the symphonic repertoire, from Berlioz and Wagner to Shostakovich and Ravel, but its solo repertoire is unfortunately very restricted.

To bring this beautiful, expressive instrument and its dark, flexible tone into the light, Alexandre (Principal Cor Anglais in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra) and Neal (Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) undertook extensive research into historical performance techniques.

The end result is a gorgeous, beautifully performed disc of several well-known works of the classical music canon in fresh and thought-provoking interpretations.

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