Title: Dukas, Falla, Liszt & Mussorgsky: Sorcellerie Artist: Duo Jatekok Label: Alpha Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 3701624510834 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2024-11-01 Number of Discs: 1
Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: Naïri Badal and Adelaïde 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 it's 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.
Tracks: 1.1 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Lento assai 1.2 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Grandioso 1.3 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Cantando espressivo 1.4 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Pesante 1.5 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Andante sostenuto - Quasi adagio 1.6 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Allegro energico 1.7 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Più mosso 1.8 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Cantando espressivo senza slentare 1.9 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Stretto quasi presto 1.10 Sonate pour Piano en Si Mineur~Andante 1.11 Amour Sorcier: Rituel du feu. Allegro ma non troppo e pesante 1.12 Apprent Sorcier~Assez lent 1.13 Apprent Sorcier~Vif 1.14 Apprent Sorcier~A tempo 1.15 Apprent Sorcier~Plus retenu 1.16 Apprent Sorcier~A tempo 1.17 Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Allegro feroce 1.18 Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Più sostenuto 1.19 Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Con fuoco 1.20 Nuit sur Le Mont Chauve~Poco meno mosso
