{TABLE} 8 waltzes from Op 39........................... Brahms Divertissement a la hongroise, Op 54, D818......Schubert Hungarian Dances, Nos 2, 3. 4, 6................Brahms {/TABLE} FOUR hands at one piano make twice as much noise as two hands, so there is a danger of pieces sounding too loud. This danger was not so much avoided as courted by Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin and Reamonn Keary in their recital of music with a Hungarian theme at the Lane Gallery last Sunday. The heavy-footed country mirth may be authentic, but it becomes wearing if it lasts too long.
The light-hearted dance-inspired pieces by Brahms and Schubert, intended for domestic performance, could have been performed with an unnatural delicacy and gained in variety and contrast. Schubert's repetitious Divertissement needs much more light and shade, but at best it is a diffuse work and not to be compared with the Brahms Waltzes, in which the duettists' talents were most rewardingly employed.
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