Bartlett and Robertson Duel Pianos

Forgotten Music on 78 RPM Records S3productions

Bartlett and Robertson   Duel Pianist

Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson Romance from First Suite for two pianos

Turkish March

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Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson Romance from First Suite for two pianos

Columbia Blue Label 17198-D (CO27119)

Composer Arensky

A: Romance from First Suite for two pianos

Release date 1940 / 1941 ?

B: Turkish March (CO27120)

From “the Ruins of Athens “

The Ruins of Athens (Die Ruinen von Athen), Opus 113, is a set of incidental music pieces written in 1811 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The music was written to accompany the play of the same name by August von Kotzebue, for the dedication of a new theatre at Pest.

Perhaps the best-known music from The Ruins of Athens is the Turkish March, a theme that even many who are not avid classical music listeners are familiar with. The overture and the Turkish March are often performed separately, and the other pieces of this set are not often heard Another of Beethoven's compositions, Six variations on an original theme, Op. 76, uses the Turkish March as its theme.

Bartlett and Robertson refers to the husband-and-wife classical piano duo of Ethel Bartlett (1896–1978) and Rae Robertson (1893–1956), who were credited with popularizing two-piano music in Europe and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s through their extensive touring, recordings, and radio performances