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London Piano Festival – Two-Piano Marathon

Celebrating music written for two pianos with Stephen Kovacevich, Margaret Fingerhut, Katya Apekisheva, Charles Owen, Konstantin Lifschitz, Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy.

Celebrating music written for two pianos, as part of the London Piano Festival, Stephen Kovacevich, Margaret Fingerhut, Katya Apekisheva, Charles Owen, Konstantin Lifschitz, Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy come together in different combinations for a marathon concert of pieces performed at two keyboards.

Recorded at Kings Place
Natasha Riordan presents

Schumann/Debussy: Six Etudes in Canon Form
Bax: The Poisoned Fountain
Bax: Hardanger
Poulenc: Élégie
Poulenc: Capriccio (d'après Le bal masqué)
Poulenc: L’embarquement pour Cythère
Stravinsky: Concerto for Two Pianos

Interval: exploring orchestrations which started life as music written for piano, including Debussy's Tarantelle styrienne.

Debussy: En blanc et noir
Thomas Adès: Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face
Debussy: Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane
Rachmaninov: Russian Rhapsody (1891)

Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Charles Owen (piano)
Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
Samson Tsoy (piano)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Six Pieces in Canonic Form Op.56 (arr. Debussy)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Performer: Samson Tsoy. Music Arranger: Claude Debussy.
  • Arnold Bax

    The Poisoned Fountain

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut. Performer: Charles Owen.
  • Arnold Bax

    Hardanger

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut. Performer: Charles Owen.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Élégie for two pianos

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Capriccio (d'après La bal masque)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cythère

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Concerto for Two Pianos

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Performer: Samson Tsoy.
  • Claude Debussy

    En blanc et noir

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Performer: Charles Owen.
  • Thomas Adès

    Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face for two pianos

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva. Performer: Charles Owen.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane

    Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Russian Rhapsody for two pianos

    Performer: Konstantin Lifschitz. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
  • Arnold Bax

    Scherzo

    Performer: Rex Lawson.
    • NMC.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Oct 2018 19:30

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