Rhapsody - Ferrante and Teicher

Swedish Rhapsody

Rhapsody
Ferrante And Teicher
And Their Magic Pianos
Urania USD 1009
1955

From the back cover: Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher, two enterprising pianists, have fused their talents to produce a new commodity in the world of music and sound. They tailor a wide variety of concert, semi-classical and pop compositions to their instruments, and on occasion, to ginger up pop selections, they even tinker with their instruments to produce novel sound effect. In serious repertory, however, they cut no capers. There they are noted for lucidity, precision, adaptability to many styles of music, and fingers that are fleet far beyond the ordinary. In the past ten years, they have come to  be admired by countless thousands on nation-wide concert tours, on radio and TV, and on several notable record releases. Their clever arrangements of Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Saint-Saens or of Porter, Kern, etc. endow familiar compositions with new vitality and enrich sonorities. As for the various ways in which they "prepare" the piano for programs, they justify their innovations by maintaining that historically "the piano contains its ancestors – harp, lute, dulcimer, zither, clavichord and harpsichord," and they are only attempting to bring these submerged sonorities to the fore. Although only in their thirties, Ferrante and Teicher have appeared as performers of serious music with the New York Philharmonic, Rochester Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Toledo Symphony and New York City Symphony Orchestra. On the airways, in serious as well as light classics, listeners have heard them regularly on ABC's Piano Playhouse, NBC's Eddie Dowling Show, or NBC's Carnation Hour. Sophisticated m.c.'s such as Steve Allen, Garry Moore, Ernie Kovacs and Mitch Miller have been proud to introduce them on their TV shows. In all the media, they have received rave notices for their thorough mastery of their craft, their versatility, and the artistic rapport which transforms them into a excitement in the modern manner. They are ideally suited to the diablerie which is the breath of ice to most rhapsodies.

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