Pas de deux
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French Music for Piano Duo
4022143926722
92672
ACX
2012.10.26
"Schon nach den ersten Takten wird klar: Hier präsentiert sich ein eingespieltes Zweierteam der Extraklasse, gereift durch jahrelange gemeinsame Erfahrung." (NDR Kultur)
"The young German piano duo Mona and Rica Bard are at the start of what promises to be an outstanding career [...]. This is their first CD, and it is fantastic." (www.classicalcdreview.com)
Elegant and style-conscious, the sisters Mona and Rica Bard undertake a pas de deux, at one and at two pianos, through eighty years of French piano music. Their programme includes Bizet‘s masterly miniatures, Ravel‘s refined, temperamental portraits of Spain, Milhaud's comedy about a character of the Commedia dell’Arte and the stylistic versatility of Francis Poulenc, who was both able to flirt with the entertainment music of his time and also, around 1950, to compose a substantial commentary on classicism and modernism beyond the main currents with his Sonata for Two Pianos.