Les Boys: Poulenc, Trotignon, Brubeck | Alpha ALPHA388

Les Boys: Poulenc, Trotignon, Brubeck

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA388

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th February 2018

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About

The piano duo formed by Arthur Gold (1917–90) and Robert Fizdale (1920–95) enjoyed immense fame in the post-war years. Poulenc wrote a piece for them, as did Darius Milhaud, Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio and John Cage. They recorded with Leonard Bernstein. Nicknamed "The Boys" , they played all over the world and were praised for their ‘seamless perfection and an inimitable "joie de vivre" (New York Times). The Boys were also famed for their bestselling books and television programmes on cooking, their other passion!

Duo Jatekok (játékok = "games"  in Hungarian) was formed in 2007. Like The Boys and unlike most current piano duos, Adélaďde Panaget and Naďri Badal are not siblings, but childhood friends. "They have everything going for them: dynamic rigour and expressive energy, exuberant keyboard skills and multilingual touch, and more than anything else, a sort of jubilatory osmosis," wrote Le Monde. For this first recording on Alpha, they have decided to pay tribute to "The Boys"  with a programme of works written for them, Poulenc’s Sonata for two pianos and Élégie and a composition by a legend of jazz, the American pianist Dave Brubeck, Points on Jazz. Duo Jatekok also wanted to include music by one of their contemporaries: Baptiste Trotignon’s Trois Pičces (including one dedicated to Poulenc!) complete the programme.

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