The People United Will Never Be Defeated! / Four Hands

Album by Frederic Rzewski & Ursula Oppens & Jerome Lowenthal

The People United Will Never Be Defeated! / Four Hands is an album by American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski, released in 1975. It presents an extended set of piano variations based on a Chilean protest song alongside a four-hands arrangement, combining virtuosic pianism, extended techniques and lyrical passages, and it occupies a prominent place in Rzewski's oeuvre and in late 20th-century piano repertoire.
First released: 11th September 2015

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Theme: With determination
    1:20
  2. 2.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 1: Weaving: delicate but firm
    0:50
  3. 3.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 2: With firmness
    0:52
  4. 4.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 3: Slightly slower, with expressive nuances (♩ = ca. 88)
    1:08
  5. 5.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 4: Marcato - With determination
    0:59
  6. 6.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 5: Dreamlike, frozen
    1:02
  7. 7.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 6: Same tempo as beginning
    1:06
  8. 8.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 7: Tempo (Lightly, impatiently)
    0:58
  9. 9.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 8: With agility; not too much pedal; crisp
    1:08
  10. 10.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 9: half note = 48, Evenly
    0:59
  11. 11.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 10: Comodo, recklessly (♩ = 96)
    0:59
  12. 12.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 11: Tempo I (♩ = 106)
    0:58
  13. 13.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 12
    1:09
  14. 14.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 13: ♩ = 72 or slightly faster
    1:33
  15. 15.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 14: A bit faster, optimistically
    1:13
  16. 16.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 15: Flexible, like an improvisation
    1:20
  17. 17.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 16
    1:35
  18. 18.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 17: L.H. strictly half note = 36, R.H. freely, roughly as in space
    1:00
  19. 19.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 18: ♩ = 72
    1:26
  20. 20.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 19: dotted ♩ = 144, With energy
    0:37
  21. 21.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 20: Crisp, precise, ♩ = 144
    0:35
  22. 22.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 21: ♩ = 108, Relentless, uncompromising
    0:53
  23. 23.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 22: ♩ = 132
    0:48
  24. 24.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 23: As fast as possible, with some rubato
    0:27
  25. 25.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 24: ♩ = 72
    2:00
  26. 26.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 25: ♩ = ca. 84, with fluctuations
    1:54
  27. 27.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 26: ♩ = 168, In a militant manner
    1:09
  28. 28.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 27: (♩ = 72) Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression
    4:45
  29. 29.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 28: ♩ = 160
    1:22
  30. 30.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 29: ♩ = 144-152
    0:31
  31. 31.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 30: (♩ = 84)
    2:18
  32. 32.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 31: (♩ = 106)
    0:55
  33. 33.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 32
    0:57
  34. 34.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 33
    0:57
  35. 35.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 34
    1:01
  36. 36.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 35
    1:02
  37. 37.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Variation 36
    1:22
  38. 38.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Cadenza
    2:37
  39. 39.
    The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Thema: Tempo I
    2:46
  40. 40.
    4 Hands: I. ♩ = 96-104
    6:09
  41. 41.
    4 Hands: II. senza misura (ca. 30 seconds per line)
    3:14
  42. 42.
    4 Hands: III. ♩ = 72
    1:28
  43. 43.
    4 Hands: IV. ♩ = 96
    5:06

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