Sorcellerie
Duo Jatekok
There is all sorts of wizardry on show here, as the admirable Duo Jatekok cast their spell with arrangements of familiar pieces by Liszt, de Falla, Dukas and Mussorgsky.
Sorcellerie
Duo Jatekok
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There is all sorts of wizardry on show here, as the admirable Duo Jatekok cast their spell with arrangements of familiar pieces by Liszt, de Falla, Dukas and Mussorgsky.
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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.
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January 2025
There is all sorts of wizardry on show here, as the admirable Duo Jatekok cast their spell with arrangements of familiar pieces by Liszt, de Falla, Dukas and Mussorgsky.