Sorcellerie

Dukas, Paul, Falla, Manuel de, Liszt, Franz, Mussorgsky, Modest, różni kompozytorzy

Duo Jatekok

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Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Játékok: Naïri Badal and Adélaïde Panaget are transformed into sorceresses on four hands and two pianos – enchanting guides who lead us through a programme featuring a Faustian pact, magic, and the world of childhood. At its heart is Liszt’s Piano Sonata, brilliantly transcribed for two keyboards by Saint-Saëns: ‘It illustrates the eternal struggle between the hubris of excess and the tragic fall, between light and darkness’, say the duo of this ‘Faustian’ masterpiece by Liszt, a great admirer of Goethe. In a more carefree but equally fantastical vein is the famous Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which Paul Dukas himself transcribed in 1898. The trance-like atmosphere and frenzied dancing continues with Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo (Love the magician). Finally, Mussorgsky’s Night on the Bare Mountain, a ‘danse macabre between the world of the living and that of the spirits’, rounds off this supernatural odyssey.

YB:https://youtu.be/OUKrW9ztx0E

Works:

•Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns)
• Falla: El amor brujo: No. 8, Danza Ritual del Fuego (Version for 2 Pianos)
• Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos)
• Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Nikolay Arziboucheff)

CD x 1

Alpha

31/10/2024

3701624510834