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The Zoo Duet - Michael Nyman: Music For Two Pianos (2004)  Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 6, 2023
The Zoo Duet - Michael Nyman: Music For Two Pianos (2004)

The Zoo Duet - Michael Nyman: Music For Two Pianos (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 186 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 131 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Minimalism | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD506 | 00:56:40

Released shortly after the composer's 60th birthday, this album from The Zoo Duet presents works that deserve to be better known. Taking a line for a second walk is vintage Nyman, conceived originally as an orchestral work for Houston Ballet in 1966 and transcribed for two amplified pianos without any loss of its hypnotic intensity. Water Dances began life as music for Peter Greenaway's film Making A Splash and receives its premiere recording in its five-movement form on this disc. (Music Week)
Adrienne Soos, Ivo Haag - Claude Debussy: Early Works For Piano Duet (2011)

Adrienne Soós, Ivo Haag - Claude Debussy: Early Works For Piano Duet (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 216 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572385 | Time: 01:14:46

An innovative genius, Claude Debussy is famous for his mature ‘Impressionist’ music, though he rather disliked the term. He frequently performed four-hand piano pieces in concert, most of the works on this disc either being composed or adapted by him for this line-up. The imaginative figuration, kaleidoscopic sonorities and moments of dazzling virtuosity found in these rarely-heard works from the 1880s are a testament to Debussy’s skills both as a performer and a composer. Pianists Adrienne Soós and Ivo Haag have been a firmly-established piano duo for more than fifteen years, becoming one of the leading ensembles in Switzerland.
Bill Monroe & Doc Watson - Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 (Off The Record, Vol. 2) (1993)

Bill Monroe & Doc Watson - Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 (Off The Record, Vol. 2) (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 182 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 112 Mb | Scans included
Label: Smithsonian Folkways | # SF CD 40064 | Time: 00:45:05
Folk, Country, Bluegrass, Old-Timey, Country Blues, Appalachian, Gospel

Any time two greats who admire each other and are musically compatible team together, the results are usually mutually beneficial. That was true for Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, whose spirited union on this 17-song disc is a sampler of American musical styles. They ripped through bluegrass, folk, blues, spirituals, mountain tunes, work songs, reels and breakdowns. Monroe's mandolin and Watson's guitar playing were masterful, wondrous and performed without any trace of self-indulgence. Their vocals were also delivered with ease, fluidity and conviction, the product of two performers completely at ease with themselves and only interested in spotlighting the material.

Kristjan Järvi - Steve Reich: Duet (2016)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 5, 2022
Kristjan Järvi - Steve Reich: Duet (2016)

Kristjan Järvi - Steve Reich: Duet (2016)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 01:32:28 | 505 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: 88985366362

The music of Steve Reich has been heard in various venues, including electronic music dance clubs, but the full symphony orchestra treatment has been rare. That is changing, however, with the tenure of Kristjan Järvi as chief conductor of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the result in that musically conservative, German city is this major-label double album of Reich's music, in many respects a first. Järvi's enthusiasm for the project is palpable here, most obviously in the live performance of the early Reich standard Clapping Music, which he and the composer perform together to the approval of the crowd.

Lester Bowie, Phillip Wilson - Duet (1994)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 5, 2019
Lester Bowie, Phillip Wilson - Duet (1994)

Lester Bowie, Phillip Wilson - Duet (1994)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Improvising Artists Inc., IAI 123 854-2 | ~ 127 or 71 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 28 Mb
Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz

~ Recorded on 19 January 1978 at Blue Rock Studio, NYC ~

Gary Burton / Chick Corea - Duet (1979) {ECM 1140}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Oct. 18, 2018
Gary Burton / Chick Corea - Duet (1979) {ECM 1140}

Gary Burton / Chick Corea - Duet (1979) {ECM 1140}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 230MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 130MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz

Vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Chick Corea had first recorded together in 1972 for Crystal Silence (released under Corea's name). Six years later, they teamed up for renditions of two Steve Swallow tunes, plus Corea's lengthy "Duet Suite," four of his sketchy "Children's Songs," "Song to Gayle" and his classic "La Fiesta." This subtle set finds Burton and Corea consistently inspiring each other through melodic and very spontaneous improvising. Well worth a close listen.
PianoDuo Takahashi Lehmann - Bach-Reger: Transcriptions for Piano Duet (2019)

PianoDuo Takahashi Lehmann - Bach-Reger: Transcriptions for Piano Duet (Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6, Toccata and Fugue, Passacaglia & Prelude and Fuge) (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 294 MB | Cover | 02:08:10 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 452 MB
Classical | Label: audite Musikproduktion

Max Reger paid homage to his musical guiding star Johann Sebastian Bach not only as an imaginative interpreter, but also as a sensitive arranger, making numerous organ works and the complete Brandenburg Concertos available for piano four hands.
Katia & Marielle Labèque - Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances for piano duet (1981)

Katia & Marielle Labèque - Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances for piano duet (1986)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:01 | 195 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 416459

The two Labèque sisters are Basque in origin, having been born on the southwest coast of France near the Spanish border. Katia and Marielle are a sharply contrasted, yet highly communicative piano team. While their joint reputation was won initially through the performance of unusual repertoire, they have not neglected traditional works for two pianos.
Sontraud Speidel, Evelinde Trenkner - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites arr. for Piano Duet by Max Reger (2001)

Sontraud Speidel, Evelinde Trenkner - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites arr. for Piano Duet by Max Reger (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:27:55 | 541 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG | Catalog: MDG 330 1006-2

A superb recording of the Bach's Orchestral Suites transcribed for a piano duet. It makes a great change to hear these excellent pieces of Bach played as a piano duet to the standard orchestral version. I am absolutely delighted with it and it is great that I now have both the original orchestral version (complete) and this complete version too. For anyone who enjoys piano transcriptions of orchestral works, this recording is highly recommended.
Eleonor Bindman, Susan Sobolewski - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites - Transcribed for Piano Duet by Eleonor Bindman (2022)

Eleonor Bindman, Susan Sobolewski - J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites - Transcribed for Piano Duet by Eleonor Bindman (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:21:29 | 186 / 251 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

Eleonor Bindman’s new arrangement of Bach’s orchestral suites for piano duet follows her widely admired recording of the six Brandenburg Concertos. Once again, the transcription re-imagines Bach’s writing using the modern piano, in this case a Bösendorfer. Bindman and her Duo Vivace partner, Susan Sobolewski, draw upon the suite’s dance movements to suggest how Bach might have distributed the material, ordering them for maximum contrast, and succeeding in conveying the music’s vitality and beauty in a new medium.