A CELEBRATION OF DUO-PIANO MUSIC

 

CD 1 SPANISH PROGRAM

Chabrier: España

Albeniz: Rhapsodia Española

Liszt-Busoni: Spanish Rhapsody

Manuel Infante: Andalusian Dances

Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole

Bizet: Carmen Fantasy

Falla: Danse Espagnole No. 1 (La vida breve)

 

CD 2 FRENCH PROGRAM

Saint-Saens: Variations on a Theme by Beethoven

Debussy: En Blanc et Noir

Ravel: La Valse

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos; Valse-Musette

 

CD 3 RUSSIAN PROGRAM

Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2, Op. 17; Fantasy, Op. 5

Gliere: Six Pieces

Arensky: Suite, Op. 15

Khatchaturian: Fantastic Waltz

 

Madeleine Forte, Del Parkinson - Piano

 

Recorded in live performances 1988, 1991 & 1992

 

MADELEINE FORTE “At a time when national styles have all but dissolved into a generalized international goulash, Forte’s gorgeous tone and sensuous line evoke classic French pianism...her Maurice Ravel holds its own against interpretations by many of her more celebrated peers, from the chaste simplicity of the Sonatine to the virtuosic ‘Gaspardde la Nuit,’ in which no prisoners are taken and no notes are dropped.” The New Yorker

 

DEL PARKINSON “Negotiating most of the difficultiesof such works as Liszt’s ‘Dante’ Sonata, Stravinsky’s ‘Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka’ and Rachmaninoff ’s Second Sonata, as Del Parkinson did in his debut Monday night in Carnegie Recital Hall, is no small accomplishment. The Idaho pianist, with advanced degrees from Indiana University and Juilliard, relished the physical expanse of the works, along with their demanding climaxes... Prokofiev’s‘Toccata,’ in fact, had a sort of gleeful cinematic abandon about it.” New York Times

 

Romeo Records 3cds 7252-4