Sorcellerie / Duo Jatekok

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
November 1, 2024
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Paul Dukas, Manuel de Falla, Franz Liszt, Modest Mussorgsky
    • PERFORMER
      Duo Jatekok
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510834
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1083
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Enchanting tales and timeless legends are the common threads running through this album conceived by Duo Jatekok: Na�ri Badal and Adela�de 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.