Composer: Paul Dukas, Manuel de Falla, Ferencz Liszt, Modest Mussorgsky
Performer: Duo Jatekok
Orchestra:
Conductor:
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1083
Release: 2024
Size: 917 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns)
01. I. Lento Assai
02. II. Grandioso
03. III. Cantando espressivo
04. IV. Pesante
05. V. Andante sostenuto – Quasi adagio
06. VI. Allegro energico
07. VII. Più mosso
08. VIII. Cantando espressivo senza slentare
09. IX. Stretto quasi presto
10. X. Andante
Falla: El amor brujo (Version for 2 Pianos)
11. No. 8, Danza Ritual del Fuego
Dukas: L’Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos)
12. I. Assez lent
13. II. Vif
14. III. A tempo
15. IV. Plus retenu
16. V. A tempo
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Nikolay Arziboucheff)
17. I. Allegro feroce
18. II. Piu sostenuto
19. III. Con fuoco
20. IV. Poco meno mosso
Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: Nairi Badal and Adelaide 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-Saens: ‘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.