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Katia & Marielle Labeque - Piano Fantasy: Music for Two Pianos (6CD BoxSet) (2003)

Katia & Marielle Labeque - Piano Fantasy: Music for Two Pianos (6CD BoxSet) (2003)
  • Title: Piano Fantasy: Music for Two Pianos
  • Year Of Release: 2003
  • Label: Philips
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 06:32:52
  • Total Size: 1.33 Gb
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Tracklist:

CD1: Johannes Brahms (51'01")
21 Hungarian Dances
01. No.1 in G minor: Allegro molto
02. No.2 in D minor: Allegro non assai
03. No.3 in F major: Allegretto
04. No.4 in F minor: Poco sostenuto
05. No.5 in F sharp minor: Allegro
06. No.6 in D flat major: Viace
07. No.7 in A major: Allegretto
08. No.8 in A minor: Presto
09. No.9 in E minor: Allegro non troppo
10. No.10 in E major: Presto
11. No.11 in A minor: Poco andante
12. No.12 in D minor: Presto
13. No.13 in D major: Andantino grazioso
14. No.14 in D minor: Un poco andante
15. No.15 in B flat major: Allegretto grazioso
16. No.16 in F minor: Con moto
17. No.17 in F sharp minor: Andantino
18. No.18 in D major: Molto vivace
19. No.19 in B minor: Allegretto
20. No.20 in E minor: Poco allegretto
21. No.21 in E minor: Vivace

CD2: Antonin Dvorak (1:08'15")
Slavonic Dances, Op.46
01. No.1 in C major: Presto
02. No.2 in E minor: Allegretto scherzando
03. No.3 in D major: Allegretto scherzando
04. No.4 in F major: Tempo di menuetto
05. No.5 in A major: Allegro vivace
06. No.6 in A flat major: Poco allegro
07. No.7 in C minor: Allegro assai
08. No.8 in G minor: Presto
Slavonic Dances, Op.72
09. No.1 in B major: Molto vivace
10. No.2 in E minor: Allegretto grazioso
11. No.3 in F major: Allegro
12. No.4 in D flat major: Allegretto grazioso
13. No.5 in B flat minor: Poco adagio
14. No.6 in B flat major: Moderato, quasi minuetto
15. No.7 in C major: Presto
16. No.8 in A flat major: Grazioso e lento, ma non troppo, quasi tempo di valse

CD3: Bizet, Faure, Ravel, Poulenc & Milhaud (1:18'30")
Georges Bizet - Jeux d'enfants, Op.22
01. L'Escarpolette
02. La Toupie
03. La Poupee
04. Les Chevaux de bois
05. La Volant
06. Trompette et tambour
07. Les Bulles de savon
08. Les Quatres Coins
09. Colin-maillard
10. Saute-mouton
11. Petit mari, petit femme
12. Le Bal
Gabriel Faure - Dolly, Op.56
13. Berceuse
14. Mi-a-ou
15. Le Jardin de Dolly
16. Kitty-Valse
17. Tendresse
18. Le Pas espagnol
Maurice Ravel - Ma Mere l'Oye
19. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
20. Petit Poucet
21. Laideronnette, imperatrice des pagodes
22. Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bete
23. Le Jardin feerique
Francis Poulenc
24. Capriccio d'apres Le Bal masque, FP 155
25. Elegie (en accords alternes) pour deux pianos, FP 175
26. L'Embarquement pour Cythere, FP 150
Darius Milhaud - Scaramouche
27. I. Vif
28. II. Modere
29. III. Brazileira (Mouvement de samba)

CD4: Falla, Lecuona, Albeniz, Infante (59'21")
Manuel de Falla - La vida breve
01. Spanish Dance No.1
02. Spanish Dance No.2
Manuel de Falla - El amor brujo
03. Ritual Fire Dance
Ernesto Lecuona - Andalucia
04. Malaguena
Isaac Albeniz - Suite Espanola, Op.47
05. Sevilla (Sevillanas)
06. Cadiz (Cancion)
07. Aragon (Fantasia)
08. Castilla (Seguidillas)
Isaac Albeniz
09. Pavanna-Capricho, Op.12
Isaac Albeniz - Suite Iberia
10. Triana
Isaac Albeniz
11. Navarra
Manuel Infante - Danses andalouses
12. I. Ritmo
13. II. Sentimiento
14. III. Gracia (El vito)

CD5: Tchaikovsky & Scriabin (56'00 ")
Peter Tchaikovsky
01. Italian Capriccio, Op.45 (transkr.Tchaikovsky)
Alexander Scriabin
02. Fantasia in A Minor, Op.posth
Peter Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake, Op.20 (ar. Claude Debussy)
03. Danse russe
04. Danse espagnole
05. Danse napolitaine
Peter Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty, So.66 (ar. Sergey Rachmaninov)
06. Introduction - La Fee des lilas
07. Adagio. Pas d'action
08. Pas de caractere
09. Panorama
10. Valse
Peter Tchaikovsky
11. Slavic march, Soc.31 (ar. Alexander Batalin)

CD6: Gershwin & Poulenc (1:20'14")
George Gershwin
1. Rhapsody in Blue (version for 2 pianos)
George Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F major (version for 2 pianos)
2. I. Allegro
3. II. Adagio
4. III. Allegro agitato
George Gershwin
5. Rhapsody in Blue (version for 2 pianos & orchestra)*
Francis Poulenc - Concerto in d minor for 2 pianos & orchestra FP 61**
6. I. Allegro ma non troppo
7. II. Larghetto
8. III. Finale: Allegro molto
The Cleveland Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Performers:
Katia Labeque, piano
Marielle Labeque, piano

The sister's Labeque, Katia and Marielle, have become sort of a modern day version of Flagstad and Melchior, the Met's supreme Wagner pair of the thirties: people quite take their supreme gifts as duo pianists completely for granted. "Oh, yes, I really like them!", someone will say. Yet somehow they never seem to generate the same sort of critical attention here at Amazon other still up and coming musicians regularly receive. Certainly anyone who has attended one of their concerts cannot help but be impressed with what must be one of the most pleasureable experiences in classical concert going.

When the Labeques started off on their own company/projects Philips put together this large box set covering the first decade and a half of their career. These CDs run from the initial and famous Gershwin numbers released in 1980 and which put the duo on the musical map with a huge uproar through the Tchaikovsky numbers from 1995, with in between a wide-ranging selection of many great albums. Here we have a 6 CD box set showcasing a great deal of some of the finest and most accessible selections from these two famous artists in the two piano repetoire at a stupendous price!

The box set of six CDs comes with cardboard sleeves containing a listed program and a five page essay, "Piano Fantasy", by Max Harrison (In English, French and German) discussing the individual selections. There are 8 pages of track listings, each with timings. Save for a single black and white frontspiece photo no mention whatsoever is made of the two stars.




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