Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: 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.
Duo JatekokNaïri Badal – PianoAdélaïde Panaget – Piano
Tracklist
Total time: 54:36
1.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Lento assai
03:22
2.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Grandioso
02:05
3.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Cantando espressivo
04:20
4.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Pesante
02:07
5.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Andante sostenuto - Q
06:33
6.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Allegro energico
02:23
7.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Più mosso
02:00
8.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Cantando espressivo s
01:29
9.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Stretto quasi presto
01:27
10.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S. 178 (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Camille Saint-Saëns): Andante
03:10
11.
El amor brujo: No. 8 Danza Ritual del Fuego (Version for 2 Pianos)
04:01
12.
L'Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos): I. Assez lent
01:57
13.
L'Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos): II. Vif
02:10
14.
L'Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos): III. A tempo
02:38
15.
L'Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos): IV. Plus retenu
01:28
16.
L'Apprenti sorcier (Version for 2 Pianos): V. A tempo
02:26
17.
Night on Bald Mountain (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Nikolay Arziboucheff): I. Allegro feroce
03:33
18.
Night on Bald Mountain (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Nikolay Arziboucheff): II. Piu sostenuto
02:15
19.
Night on Bald Mountain (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Nikolay Arziboucheff): III. Con fuoco
02:19
20.
Night on Bald Mountain (Transcr. for 2 Pianos by Nikolay Arziboucheff): IV. Poco meno mosso
02:53
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Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: 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.
Duo JatekokNaïri Badal – PianoAdélaïde Panaget – Piano