Release Date: 01 January 2015
Label: Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115186329
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Transcriptions For Pianists
Description
These two-piano transcriptions played by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and François-Frédéric Guy renew our experience of three great orchestral works, each of which was premiered in 1913. Bavouzet's version of Jeux is, like any fine transcription, far more than a memento of the original. Not only the trills and tremolandos needed on the piano to maintain sustained notes and chords, but also the interplay between the pianists, lines and motifs bouncing between them, become active participants in an intimate music of undulant ambiguity, dream, and darkness. Bavouzet's version of Jeux is, like any fine transcription, far more than a memento of the original. Not only the trills and tremolandos needed on the piano to maintain sustained notes and chords, but also the interplay between the pianists, lines and motifs bouncing between them, become active participants in an intimate music of undulant ambiguity, dream, and darkness. The thundering and the bells of the two pianos in full and accurate fury make this version of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps hardly less forceful in the hands of these two dazzling and virtuosic pianists.
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Janacek:Martinu:Haas
Palm Court Theatre Order
Imogen Cooper
Sydney So:Pikler
Matilda Lloyd; Richard Gowers
Utrecht String Quartet, Ilona Timcenko
Trio Hermes/Ginevra Bassetti/ Francesca Giglio/Marianna Pulsoni
Simone Pierini
Reinhard Kluth
Ondrej Sindelar, Sergio Azzolini, Rosonanza Praga
Maria Umbert Kimura, Somerville College Choir; Will Dawes
Manuel Tomadin
Lilit Grigoryan, David Petersen
