ZOFO duet - Mind Meld: Works for One Piano, Four Hands (2012) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Candide: Overture (Arr. C. Harmon)
02. Piano Sonata for 4 Hands: I. Very Slowly
03. Piano Sonata for 4 Hands: II. Slowly
04. Piano Sonata for 4 Hands: III. Fast
05. 6 Epigraphes antiques: No. 1, Pour invoquer Pan
06. 6 Epigraphes antiques: No. 2, Pour un tombeau sans nom
07. 6 Epigraphes antiques: No. 3, Pour que la nuit soit propice
08. 6 Epigraphes antiques: No. 4, Pour la danseuse aux crotales
09. 6 Epigraphes antiques: No. 5, Pour l'égyptienne
10. 6 Epigraphes antiques: No. 6, Pour remercier la pluie au matin
11. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: Introduction [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
12. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: The Augurs of Spring - Dances of the Young Girls [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
13. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of Abduction [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
14. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: Spring Rounds [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
15. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of the River Tribes [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
16. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: Procession of the Sage [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
17. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: The Sage [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
18. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. I, Adoration of the Earth: Dance of the Earth [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
19. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. II, The Sacrifice: Introduction [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
20. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. II, The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles of the Young Girls [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
21. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. II, The Sacrifice: Glorification of the Chosen One [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
22. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. II, The Sacrifice: Evocation of the Ancestors [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
23. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. II, The Sacrifice: Ritual Action of the Ancestors [Version for Piano 4 Hands]
24. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Pt. II, The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance [Version for Piano 4 Hands]



Musical compatriots. Collaborators. Teachers. Friends. Pianists. These are the links that bound the four remarkable 20th century composers, whose one-piano-four-hands works are brought together by Sono Luminus on this first CD from the dynamic ZOFO duet. Whether performing public duet concerts together or using the piano four-hands form to explore their symphonic visions, Bernstein, Shapero, Debussy and Stravinsky all understood the musical power of sharing the bench.

When internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi joined forces to form ZOFO duet in the spring of 2009, their goal was to explore and enrich the one-piano-four-hands repertoire by performing and recording existing and new works at the highest level of musical excellence. The pieces they chose for their first public performance as a professional ensemble at the San Francisco Conservatory in the fall of 2009 were by Leonard Bernstein, Harold Shapero, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky – four highly influential composers of the 20th century who knew each other, learned from each other, sometimes performed together, and embraced the piano four - hands form. Since their concert debut in 2009 ZOFO has performed dozens of concerts with repertoire ranging from Johannes Brahms to Tomohiro Moriyama, and in venues from San Francisco to Carnegie Hall to Osaka Japan. But for this, their first CD, Eva-Maria and Keisuke return to the four composers and magnificent pieces that launched them on their career as ZOFO duet.

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