Hallelujah Junction / Quattro Mani Duo

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Label
Bridge Records
Release Date
June 2, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      John Adams, Paul Bowles, Paul Creston, Paul Moravec, Bent Sorensen
    • PERFORMER
      Quattro Mani
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 02, 2023
    • UPC
      090404955228
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BCD9552
    • LABEL
      Bridge Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Hallelujah Junction

      Composer: John Adams

      Ensemble: Quattro Mani

    2. Rumba-Tarantella

      Composer: Paul Creston

      Ensemble: Quattro Mani

    3. Night Waltz

      Composer: Paul Bowles

      Ensemble: Quattro Mani

    4. Quattro Mani

      Composer: Paul Moravec

      Ensemble: Quattro Mani

    5. 6 Intermezzi

      Composer: Bent Sørensen

      Ensemble: Quattro Mani


Stellar piano duo Quattro Mani's latest recording features John Adams's ebullient "Hallelujah Junction", and premiere recordings by Paul Moravec and Danish composer Bent Sørensen. Bonus tracks include rarities by Paul Creston and Paul Bowles. Fanfare’s Robert Carl writes that “Quattro Mani is one of the most enduring and leading keyboard duos anywhere.”

REVIEW:

John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction (1996) has had at least half a dozen recordings since the first, by Nicolas Hodges and Rolf Hind for Nonesuch. Pianists Steven Beck and Susan Grace of Quattro Mani take a very different tack from that recording, yet one that is equally compelling.

The miniatures that make up the remainder of the program by Creston, Bowles, Moravec, and Sørensen, are also effectively varied.

All in all, this is an enjoyable, wide-ranging program – I only wish there was more of it.

— Gramophone